Meltonville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deer Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50472. The Survey maps it on the Carpenter quadrangle.

Meltonville within Worth 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 Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Carpenter quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Meltonville between 2009 and 2011, burning about 3 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	3

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
5 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	4894 485TH, IA
11 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meltonville: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Falk Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pope Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meltonville in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Meltonville	$250,000	Two separate wind mills were damaged, one had a propeller bent in half and the second had a tip snapped off. Numerous trees and power lines were damaged and corn was flattened.
June 2013	Flood	Meltonville	$100,000	Water over the road on Ulmus Ave between 400th and 420th St. Water also over the road between 430th and 440th between Yarrow and Zinnia Ave. Roads will remain closed through Monday when the gravel can be replaced.
August 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Meltonville	-	A brief tornado observed by spotters with track found in high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado remained in rural cropland with no impacts to damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.
August 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Meltonville	-	A brief tornado observed by spotters with track found in high resolution satellite imagery. This tornado had a looping track with the actual path length of nearly 1.6 miles instead of the 0.84 straight line distance provided by Storm Data. The tornado remained in rural cropland with no impacts to damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.
December 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Meltonville	-	The tornado developed near 500th Street east of county road S62 and raced through rural cropland. The tornado produced no damage, hence the EFU rating in this county. This tornado continued into Minnesota in Freeborn County.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Deer Creek	6.4 miles	7
Bolan	7.2 miles	7
Grafton	8.4 miles	7
Glade	10.1 miles	7
Northwood	10.3 miles	7
Kensett	11.7 miles	7
Manly	14.4 miles	7
Silver Lake	18.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 458960. 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.