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Millville, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Millville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52035. It lies near Cherry Valley. The Survey maps it on the Turkey River quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Millville within Clayton County

On record in Millville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 2006 and 2018, burning about 222 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexTURKEY BOTTOMS
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresPort Louisa National Wildlife RefugeTURKEY RIVER
16 April 2008Arson/incendiarism8.5 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexTURKEY RIVER ARSON
14 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Millville: 10 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hintz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
OutcropPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
QuarryPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Burtletts DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Lunders DiggingsLeadPast Producer
UnknownLeadPast Producer
Anderegg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Boege QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kickbush QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osterdock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millville in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2017Heavy RainMillville$120,000East of Millville, 8.25 inches of rain fell.
July 2011FloodMillville$5,000Rising waters from the Little Turkey River went over parts of Graham Road near U.S. Highway 52 in Millville. Some of the rising water also went into the basements of some homes.
July 2024HailMillville-The public reported nickel sized hail 2 miles west of Cassville.
July 2018HailMillville-Walnut sized hail was reported in Millville.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMillville-no account filed
August 2003HailMillville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Turkey River2.6 miles14
Snefs4.5 miles13
Osterdock5.0 miles13
Guttenberg6.1 miles13
North Buena Vista6.4 miles16
Fairview7.6 miles13
Updegraff8.7 miles13
Ceres10.2 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MillvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928404The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 459117. 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.