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Moingona, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Marcy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50036. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boone West quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Moingona within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Moingona between 2009 and 2017, burning about 30 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/undetermined5
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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2016Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesBOONE
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1624 220TH STREET, IOWA
14 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Wetland Management DistrictHARRIER MARSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Moingona: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Ahrens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boone Clay WorksClayPast Producer
Boone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Everett YardClayPast Producer
Jacob Yegge BrickyardClayPast Producer
Keeney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mondt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
N. W. Griffee Pottery WorksClayPast Producer
Slater YardClayPast Producer
Swigert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moingona in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2008Flash FloodMoingona$50,000Extensive street flooding in Boone. Flash flooding reported at 150th and 139th St. in Boone County.
June 2008Flash FloodMoingona$25,000Street flooding was reported with stalled cars. Water was running in fields near the Boone Story county border.
June 2008Flash FloodMoingona$10,000Water was reported over numerous intersections and streets with 1.80 inches of rainfall in a short period of time.
May 2024Flash FloodMoingona-Canyon road impassable due to water over the road.
April 2023HailMoingona-Report via social media.
June 2022Heavy RainMoingona-A 24 hour rain total of 3.92 inches.
June 2022Heavy RainMoingona-A 24 hour rain total of 3.77 inches.
October 2019Heavy RainMoingona-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.02 inches over the past 24 hours.
August 2018HailMoingona-Public reported quarter sized hail.
June 2018Heavy RainMoingona-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.42 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2016HailMoingona-Public reported a mix of quarter and half dollar size hail that lasted 10 minutes.
September 2016Heavy RainMoingona-CoCoRaHS observer measured heavy rainfall of 1.94 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2016Heavy RainMoingona-Public reported heavy rainfall of 5.50 inches since Thursday night.
August 2014Funnel CloudMoingona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Coal Valley1.4 miles13
Logansport3.6 miles13
Boone4.0 miles13
Centerville5.2 miles13
Ogden5.3 miles11
Luther6.9 miles13
Ericson7.3 miles13
Fraser7.8 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 MoingonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20658071The 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 459166. 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.