Last Chance, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50068. The Survey maps it on the Le Roy quadrangle.

Last Chance within Lucas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Last Chance between 2006 and 2020, burning about 243 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
9 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas 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
Derby	5.4 miles	12
Lucas	7.0 miles	11
Troy (historical)	8.7 miles	11
Whitebreast	11.6 miles	11
Norwood	11.7 miles	11
Indianola Junction	11.9 miles	11
Chariton	13.7 miles	11
Oakley	14.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464611. 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.