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Kenwood, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Paradise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51528. The Survey maps it on the Charter Oak quadrangle.

Kenwood within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Kenwood between 2009 and 2020, burning about 100 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
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 April 2020Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1724 UNION AVE, DOW CITY, IA 51528, IOWA
6 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kenwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Dow City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenwood in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKenwood$50,000WOWT TV in Omaha reported a grain bin was flattened by high winds.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindKenwood$30,000Several trees and an old barn was blown over at the intersection of 140th St. and Q Avenue.
May 2013Flash FloodKenwood$5,000The Crawford County dispatch reported water briefly over Highway 141 and some gravel roads in the area due to over 2 inches of rainfall. Conditions improved quickly after the rain ended.
May 2013HailKenwood$1,000no account filed
August 2016HailKenwood-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.
August 2014Heavy RainKenwood-Rainfall since 1700 CST was 3.6 inches.
May 2013Heavy RainKenwood-Estimate of 2 inches of rain in the past hour. On Highway 141 east of Charter Oak, a spotter saw water pouring out of the fields into ditches, but no flood impacts at that time.
July 2009Heavy RainKenwood-Rainfall of 4 inches fell in about 2 hours.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Bell (historical)3.6 miles8
Arion4.8 miles8
Dow City5.6 miles8
Charter Oak6.0 miles8
Kimze6.5 miles8
Sunset Village7.2 miles8
Haley7.5 miles8
Denison8.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464603. 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.