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Highview, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50595. The Survey maps it on the Duncombe quadrangle.

Highview within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Highview between 2009 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWEBSTER CITY
5 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWEBSTER CITY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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 Highview: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Moberly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ahart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Forrester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grandgeorge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highview in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 funnel cloud, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2019FloodHighview$200,000Emergency manager reported that Highway 69 near Jewell had water partially covering the road. Several secondary roads, mainly gravel, had water over them as well.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindHighview-Gust measured by a personal weather station.
August 2019Funnel CloudHighview-Local fire department reported a brief funnel cloud south of Woolstock.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHighview-Storm chaser reported 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2010Funnel CloudHighview-no account filed
June 2010FloodHighview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Webster City4.7 miles9
Homer6.8 miles9
Stonega10.0 miles9
Remicker (historical)10.7 miles9
Kamrar10.8 miles9
Blairsburg13.9 miles9
Stanhope13.9 miles9
Stratford13.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457487. 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.