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Hazel Green, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hazel Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52223. It stands on Golden Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ryan quadrangle.

Hazel Green within Delaware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hazel Green between 2006 and 2013, burning about 14 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/undetermined4
Smoking1

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
7 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Smoking5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Hazel Green: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
George Huber FarmZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Buck Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lanning QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Buck Creek3.0 miles12
Golden4.7 miles12
Ryan5.0 miles12
Delhi5.6 miles12
Ehler7.5 miles10
Hopkinton7.6 miles12
Delaware8.1 miles12
Manchester9.1 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Hazel GreenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107481838The 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 464421. 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.