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Hauntown, Iowa

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elk River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52070. It stands on Schramling Creek. The Survey maps it on the Savanna quadrangle.

Hauntown within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hauntown between 1992 and 2013, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeISLAND 199
1 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeSETBACK LEVEE
6 April 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeGOOSEPOINT
23 April 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeDUCK BLIND 80
17 April 1996Debris and open burning15 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeSIMPSONTWO
31 March 1992Smoking10 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeGOOSEPOINT
29 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1120 432ND AVE, TEEDS GROVE, IA 52732, IOWA
11 January 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hauntown: 3 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
Teeds Grove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doyle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rein,Schultz & Dahl Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thomson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hauntown in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2011FloodHauntown$250,000no account filed
May 2019FloodHauntown-The Mississippi River at Fulton Lock and Dam 13 began the month above its major flood stage of 20 feet. The river stage at the beginning of the month was 21.81 feet. The river fell below major flood stage around 6 AM on May 6th.
October 2018Flash FloodHauntown-A NWS COOP observer reported that Deep Creek came out of its banks in Charlotte, and impacted a roadway for five and a half hours.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Almont1.8 miles19
Elk River Junction2.0 miles19
Teeds Grove2.7 miles24
Andover3.2 miles16
Sibyl (historical)3.6 miles19
Bulgers Hollow4.6 miles19
Bryant7.4 miles16
Sixmile8.1 miles16

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 Q122569464The 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 457317. 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.