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Genoa Bluff, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sumner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52301. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg NW quadrangle.

Genoa Bluff within Iowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Genoa Bluff between 2006 and 2020, burning about 50 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources230TH ST. AND E AVE. , IA
23 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2531 K AVE, WILLIAMSBURG, IOWA
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2020Smoking1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Genoa Bluff in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2025Flash FloodGenoa Bluff-The Emergency Manager reported that several roads across the county were flooded from area creeks.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGenoa Bluff-The emergency manager estimated winds at 60 mph that brought down small tree limbs.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindGenoa Bluff-A microburst blew most of the roof off a house and some of the windows out. Three large trees were snapped. The door and roof of a machine shed and other outbuildings were damaged.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGenoa Bluff-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed 4 miles west of Williamsburg, IA at 507 pm CDT June 29.
March 2011HailGenoa Bluff-A trained spotter about 4 miles southeast of Genoa Bluff measured dime to penny size hail.
April 2011HailGenoa Bluff-Golf ball sized hail fell about 5 miles south of Ladora, IA near mile marker 210.5 on Interstate 80 at 629 pm CDT April 3.
April 2010HailGenoa Bluff-Quarter sized hail fell about 4 miles west of Williamsburg, IA at 510 pm April 5.
June 2009Flash FloodGenoa Bluff-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of Interstate 80 near mile marker 214 about 6 miles west northwest of Williamsburg, IA during the late afternoon and early evening of June 19. Water was flowing over both lanes of the interstate.
April 2008Funnel CloudGenoa Bluff-A funnel cloud was spotted south of Interstate 80 near Ladora, where additional rotation in the clouds was observed.
June 2008HailGenoa Bluff-Nickel-sized hail fell near Lake Iowa about 9 miles south of Ladora, IA at 5:55 pm June 12.
May 2019HailGenoa Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Ladora4.4 miles8
Williamsburg8.0 miles8
Victor8.1 miles8
Marengo8.3 miles8
Millersburg8.4 miles8
Conroy8.6 miles12
Koszta9.5 miles8
Dayton10.9 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122544334The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 466100. 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.

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.