Howell, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lake Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50219. The Survey maps it on the Pella quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Howell within Marion County

On record in Howell

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.

East Amsterdam Schoollisted 2000 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1910 USGS Pella quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Pella quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Pella quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Howell (historical) between 2009 and 2015, burning about 123 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
Debris and open burning	2
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
11 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Howell (historical): 9 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Durham Pelletizing Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Oskaloosa Clay Products Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Battistello	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dingeman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Durham Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Durham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Durham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Harvey Pit #151	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pella Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pella	3.4 miles	11
Eifield (historical)	4.1 miles	11
Durham	4.1 miles	11
Flagler	4.7 miles	11
Harvey	5.0 miles	11
Otley	6.6 miles	11
Cordova (historical)	7.5 miles	11
Pershing	8.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464260. 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.