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Haskins, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oregon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52201. The Survey maps it on the Ainsworth quadrangle.

Haskins within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

9 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Haskins in 2017, burning about 88 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 burning7
Smoking2

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
6 June 2017Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2017Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning22 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2017Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2017Debris and open burning18 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 March 2017Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2017Smoking1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haskins in 16 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2016Flash FloodHaskins$50,000A trained spotter reported that a nearby railroad tracks were completely washed out. A farmer that lived nearby reported more than 6 inches of rain. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHaskins$10,000Straight line winds destroyed a barn on the Rick Gerot farm.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHaskins$3,000A Pulse severe thunderstorm downed a tree and tore part of the roof off a shed on the Rick Gerot Farm.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHaskins-Measured by wind equipement.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHaskins-A tree was reported blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHaskins-A public report of a pine tree twisted and snapped by thunderstorm winds. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHaskins-A county emergency manager reported a roof was blown off a machine shed.
August 2017HailHaskins-The time of the event was estimated using radar.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindHaskins-An amateur radio operator reported trees down near the intersection of County Road G36 and Spruce Avenue.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindHaskins-A public report of 60 MPH wind gust from a thunderstorm.
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Haskins-Tornado was rated was an EF-1 with peak winds of 110 mph, a path length of 5.95 miles, and a max width of 40 yards. This tornado spun up and tracked rapidly to the northeast. The tornado damaged numerous farm outbuildings, power lines and trees along its path.
April 2006HailHaskins-Penny sized hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHaskins-corn flattened with pea hail on the Rick Gerot farm
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHaskins-corn flattened with pea size hail on the Bryan Lasek farm
August 2017HailHaskins-no account filed
August 2015HailHaskins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Ainsworth2.8 miles7
Havre6.4 miles7
Crawfordsville7.8 miles7
Washington8.5 miles7
Yatton (historical)9.7 miles8
Riverside10.7 miles8
Iowa Junction (historical)11.3 miles8
Richmond12.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457309. 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.

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.