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Gunder, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52162. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gunder quadrangle.

Gunder within Clayton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gunder between 2014 and 2020, burning about 7 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 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

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Gunder: 9 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, 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
Indian Lead MinesLeadOccurrenceGalena
Wacker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peterson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gunder in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2019Tornado (EF0)Gunder$30,000A tornado touched down northwest of Farmersburg and moved northeast before dissipating southwest of Monona. Damage from the tornado was limited to some trees, a few outbuildings, and crops. One home did have some tree branches impaled through a wall.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGunder$2,000Trees were blown down west of Farmersburg.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGunder$500no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGunder-no account filed

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
Ridley6.4 miles11
Luana6.9 miles13
Highland7.0 miles12
Saint Olaf7.4 miles12
Hardin7.6 miles13
Farmersburg7.7 miles12
Monona8.6 miles13
Valdora (historical)9.6 miles13

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 Q122541975The 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 457180. 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.