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Giard, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Giard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52157. The Survey maps it on the Giard quadrangle.

Giard within Clayton County

On record in Giard

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Giard in 2018, burning about 3 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 burning1

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
24 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Giard: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Giard Land ClaimStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Giard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mielke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spook CaveStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Zurcher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Giard in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2017Tornado (EF1)Giard2 hurt, $840,000An EF-1 tornado touched down about 5 miles west of McGregor and then moved through McGregor before dissipating just east of town over the Mississippi River. The most damage occurred in McGregor with two buildings downtown completely destroyed while numerous others were damaged. Two people sustained minor injuries due to flying glass. Hundreds of trees across town were snapped off. West of McGregor, the tornado damaged a storage shed, ripped back part of a metal roof from an outbuilding and damaged numerous trees. One person was killed in an accident cleaning up debris when a tractor rolled over pinning the person underneath it.

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Froelich1.7 miles13
Beulah1.8 miles13
Giard Station (historical)2.3 miles13
Valdora (historical)3.2 miles13
National3.8 miles12
Farmersburg5.2 miles12
Watson5.3 miles13
West Yards5.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 456893. 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.