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Lacey, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50207. The Survey maps it on the New Sharon quadrangle.

Lacey within Mahaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lacey between 2009 and 2015, burning about 1,146 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burning1,000 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined39 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahaska 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 Lacey: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Langstraat QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahaska County

Storms near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lacey in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindLacey$75,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLacey$40,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLacey$5,000Power lines were downed by high winds. An elevated fuel tank was blown over and a barn door blown 20 feet. Dime size hail also fell.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLacey$5,000no account filed
April 2008HailLacey$1,000A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail 3 miles south of New Sharon.
May 2023HailLacey-Report of quarter sized hail with potentially a few larger stones present.
May 2019Heavy RainLacey-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.03 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2019Heavy RainLacey-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2015Funnel CloudLacey-Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud.
June 2015Funnel CloudLacey-State official reported receiving multiple reports from the public of a funnel cloud dropping from and receding into the cloud base northwest of Oskaloosa over the previous 5 minutes. Rotation was also noted in clouds southwest of New Sharon.
November 2015Heavy RainLacey-Mesonet station reported heavy rainfall of 1.79 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainLacey-Rainfall of 2.06 inches this evening.
September 2014Heavy RainLacey-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 5.62 inches.

Every storm recorded in Mahaska 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
New Sharon4.8 miles7
Union Mills5.1 miles7
Bernina (historical)6.7 miles11
Neska6.7 miles7
Oskaloosa7.2 miles7
University Park7.9 miles7
Evans8.2 miles7
Spring Valley8.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458162. 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.