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Germanville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52540. The Survey maps it on the Salina quadrangle.

Germanville within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

30 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Germanville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 417 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
11 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2020Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Germanville: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Bain PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Baldosier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Germanville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germanville in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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
May 2013HailGermanville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Merrimac2.9 miles7
East Pleasant Plain4.8 miles7
Salina5.3 miles7
Pleasant Plain5.6 miles7
Perlee7.2 miles7
Lockridge7.6 miles11
Veo8.1 miles7
Beckwith8.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464559. 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.