Garland, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Yellow Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52637. The Survey maps it on the Mediapolis quadrangle.

Garland within Des Moines County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1946 USGS Wapello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Wapello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mediapolis quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Garland between 2008 and 2018, burning about 142 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	GRANDVIEW FIRE DEPT.
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2013	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Des Moines County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Garland: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dalzell Quarry	Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone	Past Producer
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Morning Sun Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Des Moines 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Roscoe	3.3 miles	7
Mediapolis	4.5 miles	11
Northfield	5.1 miles	11
Kossuth	5.5 miles	11
Yarmouth	6.0 miles	7
Pleasant Grove	7.3 miles	11
Sperry	7.8 miles	17
Dodgeville	8.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464555. 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.