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Glendon, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50250. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Menlo quadrangle. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Glendon within Guthrie 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Glendon between 2006 and 2018, burning about 412 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
10 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3180 OLEANDER TRAIL, IA
10 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources300TH STREET AND RANCH TRAIL, IA
7 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined38 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2903 WAGON RD., JACKSON TOWNSHIP, GUTHRIE CO. , IO
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined105 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie 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 Glendon: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monteith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendon in 2 storm reports in 2015: 1 hail, 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGlendon$5,000Trained spotter reported 8 to 10 inch tree limbs snapped off.
June 2015HailGlendon$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Monteith2.9 miles11
Dale3.2 miles11
Morrisburgh (historical)4.5 miles11
Menlo5.2 miles11
Panora7.0 miles11
Stuart7.7 miles11
Guthrie Center7.8 miles9
Diamondhead Lake8.0 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on GlendonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16891691The 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 456926. 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.