BlockIvester, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Melrose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50627. The Survey maps it on the Ivester quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Ivester quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ivester between 2009 and 2019, burning about 68 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 | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ivester in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Ivester | $50,000 | Highway 14 closed due to water over the road about 3 miles south of Highway 175. Officials had to rescue one person stranded in a vehicle. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ivester | $5,000 | Utility lines bent to the east. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Ivester | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ivester | $1,000 | Delayed report of trees down and hoop building damaged near 220th and B Ave. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Ivester | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via the mPING app. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Ivester | - | Trained spotter reported lots of dime to quarter sized hail along Highway 175 just east of the Hardin-Grundy county line. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Ivester | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellsburg | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Holland | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Conrad | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Grundy Center | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Beaman | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Buck Grove | 13.0 miles | 9 | |
| Fern | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Morrison | 14.3 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Ivester | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14689087 | The 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 464591. 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.
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.