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Howardville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50435. The Survey maps it on the Floyd quadrangle.

Howardville within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Howardville between 2006 and 2015, burning about 29 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
Smoking1

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
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1500 QUAIL AVE, FLOYD, IA
27 March 2015Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Howardville: 11 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
La Costa PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nims QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Towner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Warnholtz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Floyd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lent PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Malecek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd 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
Floyd4.5 miles7
Nilesville6.3 miles7
Colwell6.7 miles7
Floyd Crossing7.1 miles7
Doubleday (historical)8.3 miles7
Charles City8.8 miles7
Rudd11.2 miles7
Carney (historical)12.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464585. 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.