Lunsford, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wyacondah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52537. It stands on Batten Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bunker Hill quadrangle.

Lunsford within Davis 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
1980 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Lunsford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,722 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2014	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 March 2020	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	87 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	123 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	170 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	121882-09828-03312015-1525
30 March 2020	Debris and open burning	454 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lunsford: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
	Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Davis 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
Savannah	1.8 miles	7
Stiles	5.0 miles	7
Mark	5.7 miles	7
Russellville (historical)	8.0 miles	7
Steuben	8.7 miles	8
Monterey	8.8 miles	7
Wanetta Corner	8.9 miles	7
Waneta	9.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464633. 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.