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Hometown-Cedar Terrace, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cedar Rapids City. It lies in ZIP code area 52404. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Rapids South quadrangle.

Hometown-Cedar Terrace within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hometown-Cedar Terrace between 1996 and 2012, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined3
Natural1

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
15 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2012Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSac and Fox AgencyMONTOUR
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hometown-Cedar Terrace: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Francik PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Freese PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Knickerbacher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lee Crawford Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Modsley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morgan Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shaefer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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
Grand View Village0.5 miles16
Cedar Hills1.0 miles16
Beverly Depot (historical)2.3 miles16
Fairfax3.2 miles15
Covington3.3 miles16
West Cedar Rapids4.3 miles16
Linn Junction4.4 miles18
Perrys Rollin' Homes Manor5.1 miles16

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 Q122565667The 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 2046906. 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.