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Irvington, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Irvington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50560. The Survey maps it on the Algona quadrangle.

Irvington within Kossuth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Irvington between 2008 and 2011, burning about 2 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/undetermined2

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
14 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1339 140TH AVE. , IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kossuth County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Irvington: 11 past producers, 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bartosh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Frankel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heusinkveld PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
IrvingtonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Irvington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mark T Mcguire Custom Grading Pit#1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reding PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
RoethlerSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kossuth County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irvington in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindIrvington$100,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindIrvington$25,000A large tree was blocking part of the Highway. Power lines were snapped south of town. Damage also reported in St. Joseph.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Irvington$5,000A brief tornado touchdown was reported with numerous trees uprooted.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIrvington$1,000no account filed
May 2024Heavy RainIrvington-CoCoRaHS station reported 24 hr heavy rainfall of 3.60 inches.
June 2024Heavy RainIrvington-Public report of 4 inches of rain.
June 2018Flash FloodIrvington-Kossuth County Sheriff's office reported Highway 169 under water about 5 miles south of Algona.
September 2018Heavy RainIrvington-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 5.8 inches with the afternoon activity.
June 2014Flash FloodIrvington-Water flowing over the intersection of Highway 169 and 160th Street.

Every storm recorded in Kossuth 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
Galbraith2.7 miles8
Algona4.7 miles8
Hobarton6.3 miles7
Saint Joseph6.7 miles8
Saint Benedict7.3 miles7
Sexton7.7 miles7
Lu Verne9.4 miles8
Hanna10.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457862. 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.