Granger Homesteads, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50109. It stands on Royer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granger quadrangle.

Granger Homesteads within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1911 USGS Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS Madrid quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Granger quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Granger Homesteads between 2010 and 2017, burning about 40 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	31376 210TH STREET, DALLAS CENTER, IA 50063, IOW
11 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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 Granger Homesteads: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Boyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jester Park Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jester Pit No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas 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
Granger	0.8 miles	13
Ingersoll (historical)	2.4 miles	11
Gibbsville	2.6 miles	13
Moran	4.8 miles	12
Xenia	7.0 miles	12
Woodward	7.7 miles	12
Dallas Center	8.5 miles	10
Minburn	10.0 miles	12

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 Q122592727

The 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 457049. 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.