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Galbraith, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50560. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joseph quadrangle.

Galbraith within Kossuth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Galbraith between 2009 and 2011, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1339 140TH AVE. , IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kossuth County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Galbraith: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bartosh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Frankel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heusinkveld PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
IrvingtonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Irvington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reding PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sec Ii T94 R29 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Kossuth County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galbraith in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGalbraith-Wind gust from personal weather station KIALUVER4.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Galbraith-This was a brief landspout that was photographed from both the air and the ground. Surface circulation was visible via the aerial photos.

Every storm recorded in Kossuth County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Irvington2.7 miles8
Saint Joseph5.9 miles8
Saint Benedict6.4 miles7
Lu Verne6.7 miles8
Algona7.3 miles8
Hanna7.6 miles8
Sexton8.0 miles7
Hobarton9.0 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464552. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.