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Hiteman, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Guilford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52531. It stands on Bee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hiteman quadrangle.

Hiteman within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Hiteman between 2006 and 2014, burning about 111 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
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hiteman in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
May 1998HailHiteman$100,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHiteman$25,000The Monroe County sheriff reported traffic sign damage and a metal shed roof removed with the shed leaning near 145th Trail and Highway 5.
October 2001HailHiteman$20,000no account filed
May 2019Flash FloodHiteman$10,000Iowa DOT reported that Monroe County was closing 602nd Ave near Cedar Creek.
May 2019Flash FloodHiteman$10,000Iowa DOT reported that Monroe County is closing 614th Ave due to water over the road.
July 2008Flash FloodHiteman$10,000Water flowing over County Highway 170.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHiteman$8,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHiteman$3,000Branches were down in the town of Hiteman.
October 2001HailHiteman$3,000no account filed
April 2012HailHiteman$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Ward2.1 miles10
Hagerty2.1 miles10
Tower Station (historical)2.4 miles10
Rexfield3.6 miles10
Georgetown4.6 miles10
Albia5.1 miles10
Lovilia5.3 miles10
Consol5.9 miles10

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 Q122549326The 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 457523. 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.