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Mark, 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. The Survey maps it on the West Grove quadrangle.

Mark 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mark between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,238 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning27 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2019Debris and open burning45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarism30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning116 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot 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 Mark: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mark in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Flash FloodMark$50,000Law enforcement reported a vehicle submerged by flood waters at 274th Street and Balsa Ave.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMark$35,000no account filed
June 2010HailMark$10,000Estimated winds of 50 MPH occurred as well.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMark$3,000Estimated 60 MPH gust.
June 2011HailMark$3,000no account filed
September 2015HailMark$2,000Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMark$2,000Tree limbs blown down on Highway 202 just north of Coatsville.
August 2019HailMark-Law enforcement reported mostly pea to quarter sized hail, with a few stones to ping pong ball in size.
July 2010HailMark-no account filed
August 2007HailMark-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Russellville (historical)2.5 miles7
Savannah3.9 miles7
Monterey4.1 miles7
West Grove5.1 miles7
Lunsford5.7 miles7
Steuben7.9 miles8
Bloomfield8.1 miles10
Stiles8.7 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464337. 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.