Jamestown, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52804. The Survey maps it on the Andalusia quadrangle.

Jamestown within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1912 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1944 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:24000

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 Jamestown between 2008 and 2009, burning under an acre 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
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	I280 11
6 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	CANAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 Jamestown: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Big Island Plant #51 Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cargill Salt Terminal Sa	Salt	Producer
Linwood Lime Plant	Calcium	Producer
Davenport Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Linwood Stone Products Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Martin Marietta-Buffalo Cement Plnt	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Buffalo Heights	1.6 miles	19
Linwood	2.5 miles	19
Buffalo	2.7 miles	19
Walnut Grove	3.0 miles	19
Little Groves	3.1 miles	18
Blue Grass	3.2 miles	15
Chapel Hill (historical)	3.2 miles	19
Nahant	3.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464593. 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.