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Logansport, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Des Moines Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50036. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boone West quadrangle.

Logansport within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Logansport between 2010 and 2017, burning about 2 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/undetermined2

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
10 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 17, P AVE, BOONE COUNTY, IOWA
16 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Wetland Management DistrictHARRIER MARSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Logansport: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Boone Clay WorksClayPast Producer
Everett YardClayPast Producer
Jacob Yegge BrickyardClayPast Producer
N. W. Griffee Pottery WorksClayPast Producer
Slater YardClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Ahrens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laube PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logansport in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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
July 2016Heavy RainLogansport-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.04 inches from last night.
September 2015Heavy RainLogansport-CoCoRaHS report of heavy rainfall storm total of 2.45 inches. End time estimated by radar.
April 2014HailLogansport-no account filed
July 2012HailLogansport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Centerville1.8 miles13
Coal Valley2.5 miles13
Moingona3.6 miles13
Boone3.6 miles13
Fraser4.2 miles12
Ogden4.7 miles11
Wolf6.3 miles11
Pilot Mound7.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458569. 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.