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Jamison, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fremont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50213. The Survey maps it on the Jamison quadrangle.

Jamison within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Jamison between 2006 and 2020, burning about 146 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamison in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015FloodJamison$250,000Rainfall amounts of 3 to 4.5 inches caused flooding across portions of the county damaging roads and 6 bridges.
July 2001HailJamison$25,000no account filed
June 2009HailJamison$5,000no account filed
April 2012HailJamison$1,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindJamison-Measured by a personal weather station.
September 2014Heavy RainJamison-Rainfall of 2.49 inches this afternoon and evening.
June 2008Funnel CloudJamison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Liberty4.1 miles10
Osceola6.4 miles9
Jay7.4 miles10
Jacksonville (historical)8.9 miles10
Ottawa9.5 miles10
Woodburn10.1 miles10
Groveland (historical)10.2 miles7
Leslie12.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457911. 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.