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Iowa Falls Junction, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hardin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50126. It stands on Elk Run. The Survey maps it on the Iowa Falls West quadrangle.

Iowa Falls Junction within Hardin County

On record in Iowa Falls Junction

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 12 of 18 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Iowa Falls Junction between 2006 and 2014, burning about 145 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning1

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
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesI-35 MM 102, IA
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources11908 MM AVENUE, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Iowa Falls Junction: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Iowa Falls Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Alden Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Riekena QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iowa Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Janssen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slayton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stinson Excavating Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hardin 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
Iowa Falls0.8 miles9
Racine4.7 miles9
Alden6.0 miles9
Alden Station (historical)6.3 miles9
Macey6.3 miles9
Owasa6.4 miles9
Eagle City7.0 miles9
Robertson7.2 miles9

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 Q122561552The 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 464135. 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.