Kline, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52601. The Survey maps it on the Sperry quadrangle.

Kline within Des Moines County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1934 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Sperry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kline between 2006 and 2018, burning about 203 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	3
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
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 March 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2018	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Des Moines County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kline: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Mediapolis Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Sperry Mine and Mill	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Us Gypsum Mine & Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer

Every working recorded in Des Moines 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
Dodgeville	2.1 miles	17
Sperry	3.7 miles	17
Prairie Grove	3.8 miles	11
Latty	4.8 miles	17
Beaverdale	5.2 miles	17
Pleasant Grove	5.2 miles	11
Mediapolis	6.4 miles	11
Danville	6.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464321. 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.