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Luton, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51052. The Survey maps it on the Luton quadrangle.

Luton within Woodbury County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Luton between 2009 and 2011, burning about 195 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/undetermined4

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
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1900 OLD HWY 141 BRONSON, IA 51007, IA
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2163 220TH ST., BRONSON, IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luton in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLuton-Thunderstorm winds blew over a grain bin.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLuton-Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and crops.
March 2012HailLuton-no account filed
June 2008HailLuton-no account filed
July 2008HailLuton-no account filed
July 1995HailLuton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Salix3.9 miles11
Bronson5.0 miles9
Owego5.6 miles9
Glen Ellen7.4 miles12
Sloan7.4 miles9
Climbing Hill7.9 miles9
Sergeant Bluff8.3 miles12
Estates West8.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458687. 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.

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.