BlockLanyon, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lost Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50544. The Survey maps it on the Lanyon quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1951 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lanyon quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lanyon in 2009, burning about 10 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lanyon: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanyon in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 tornado, 3 flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Flood | Lanyon | $100,000 | The Des Moines River at Stratford crested at 23.08 feet on 24 September 2018 at 1245 UTC. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Lanyon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Lanyon | $2,000 | Tornado traveled northeast for about half of its life before taking a sharp right turn and moving east southeast for remainder of track. There was some minor damage to grain bins. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery. |
| October 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanyon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanyon | $1,000 | Two inch diameter tree limbs were broken. One and a half foot diameter tree snapped. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lanyon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Flood | Lanyon | - | The Des Moines at Stratford crested at 21.56 ft on June 27 at 08:15 pm CDT. The river remained in flood through the end of the month and into July. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Lanyon | - | The Des Moines River at Stratford remained in flood from a peak crest in June 2024. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Lanyon | - | Brief tornado in southern Webster county east of Lanyon. Tornado remained in open agricultural fields producing crop damage. The tornado was captured on video by a trained spotter. |
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Lanyon | - | Weak tornado caught on video by storm chasers. Tornado stayed in rural areas of Webster County south of Harcourt with little damage. |
| August 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Lanyon | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Lanyon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6487688 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458228. 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.