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Hurstville, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in South Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52060. It stands on Hurstville Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maquoketa quadrangle.

Hurstville within Jackson County

On record in Hurstville

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hurstville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 139 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
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
27 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2013Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2020Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesE SIDE OF RD, ACROSS FROM 15702 242ND AVE, MAQUOKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hurstville: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 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
Rockdale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frost QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joinerville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Maquoketa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurstville in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Hurstville-A trained spotter reported damage to outbuildings at two farmsteads. Residents in the path of the tornado reported hearing a roar. There was a rotational velocity couplet and a tornado debris signature (TDS) on radar as well. Wind speeds and path were estimated based on reports from spotters. Peak winds estimated at 100 mph.
March 2016HailHurstville-The hail covered the ground up to a depth of 1 inch.
August 2011HailHurstville-Quarter-sized hail fell at the Hurstville Interpretive Center.
April 2023HailHurstville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Maquoketa2.2 miles17
Bridgeport3.0 miles17
Fulton3.9 miles17
East Iron Hills4.3 miles17
Buckhorn4.5 miles17
Ironhills5.5 miles17
Nashville5.9 miles17
Andrew6.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457736. 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.

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.