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Lebanon, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Chequest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52570. The Survey maps it on the Cantril quadrangle.

Lebanon within Van Buren 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lebanon: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Sargent QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Van Buren County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Winsell-Clayton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lebanon in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 2008Tornado (EF2)Lebanon$150,000An EF2 tornado moved northeast from just southeast of Lebanon to just northeast of Lebanon during the early evening of April 10th. A wine shed and mobile home were destroyed. The top was ripped off of a silo and the second story of a winery was damaged. A house sustained minor structural damage and several large trees were topped off.
April 2012HailLebanon-County sheriff reported golf ball size hail near Lebanon.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Pittsburg5.0 miles11
Milton5.6 miles7
Cantril5.7 miles7
Keosauqua6.4 miles11
Pleasant Hill (historical)6.6 miles11
Leando7.4 miles7
Douds7.8 miles7
Kilbourn8.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458263. 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.

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.