Ladoga, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50848. The Survey maps it on the Ladoga quadrangle.

Ladoga within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1940 USGS New Market quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS New Market quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Ladoga quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ladoga between 2006 and 2018, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
7 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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
Gravity	3.0 miles	8
New Market	5.6 miles	11
Bedford	6.5 miles	12
Guss	7.7 miles	8
Bushville	8.5 miles	8
Henshaw	8.7 miles	8
Sharpsburg	9.1 miles	8
Siam	9.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464606. 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.