BlockLotts Creek, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lotts Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50559. The Survey maps it on the Lone Rock quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lone Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lotts Creek in 2011, burning about 4 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 | 2 |
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 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 580TH & 280TH, IA |
| 2 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | P-30 & 300TH ST. INTERSECTION. W SIDE OF P-30 BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Lotts Creek: 1 unknown. 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 | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lotts Creek in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 3 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Lotts Creek | $100,000 | Almost all streets in town were under water due to the combination of three inches of rain and the sewer system being overwhelmed. Many homes and businesses had water in the basement. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Lotts Creek | - | Public reported one stone possibly to baseball size, but nearly all others were ping pong ball sized. Hail was also accompanied by strong winds and substantial crop damage. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Lotts Creek | - | Rainfall of 3.35 inches over the past two hours. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Lotts Creek | - | Heavy rainfall of 4.03 inches of rain in the past three hours. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Lotts Creek | - | Rainfall total over the last 5 hours and 20 minutes was 5.28 inches. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Lotts Creek | - | Water was over 60th ave between 270th and 280th street. Overflow from nearby Black Cat Creek. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lotts Creek | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458636. 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.