BlockHocking, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52531. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle.
On record in Hocking
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.
- Brick Gothic Houselisted 1994 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Mystic quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Mystic quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Moravia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hocking in 2009, burning under an acre 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hocking in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hocking | $35,000 | Damage to shingles and tree damage. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Hocking | - | Delayed report. Time estimated via radar. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Hocking | - | Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Hocking | - | A trained spotter reported nickel size hail in southern Monroe County. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hocking | - | Trained spotter reported wind gusts of approximately 60 mph. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Hocking | - | Rainfall during the past 12 hours was 4.38 inches. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Hocking | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Hocking | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457529. 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.