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Highlandville, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52101. The Survey maps it on the Highlandville quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Highlandville within Winneshiek County

On record in Highlandville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Highlandville between 2007 and 2018, burning about 108 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSTEVE NELSON 3461 BEAR CREEK RD., DEC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek 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 Highlandville: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hanson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Highlandville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Locust QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morken QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stoskopf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknonwStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highlandville in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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
May 1996HailHighlandville$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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
Locust3.2 miles12
Sattre3.8 miles12
Springwater5.8 miles12
Hesper6.1 miles12
Canoe (historical)6.4 miles12
Thoten9.3 miles12
Freeport10.4 miles12
Burr Oak10.5 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 HighlandvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759460The 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 457486. 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.