Harlan Junction, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51521. The Survey maps it on the Avoca quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Harlan Junction within Pottawattamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Avoca quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Avoca quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Harlan Junction (historical) between 2001 and 2017, burning about 38 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
1 May 2001	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harlan Junction (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Avoca Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawattamie 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
Avoca	2.0 miles	10
Newtown (historical)	3.4 miles	10
Hancock	7.5 miles	10
Walnut	7.6 miles	9
Minden	9.7 miles	11
Iola (historical)	11.4 miles	9
Oakland	13.2 miles	9
York Center	13.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464241. 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.