Morgin Valley, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Red Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50237. The Survey maps it on the Pleasantville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Morgin Valley within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1910 USGS Milo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Pleasantville quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Morgin Valley (historical) between 1993 and 2018, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 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 burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1

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
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge	AMANDA FIRE
18 May 2017	Natural	under an acre	Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge	BALE FIRE
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morgin Valley (historical): 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Flagstone. 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	Recorded
Occurrence	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Unknown	Flagstone	Past Producer
Stevens Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Swan	2.0 miles	9
Percy (historical)	2.3 miles	9
Pleasantville	7.3 miles	9
Cordova (historical)	11.3 miles	11
Donnelley	12.3 miles	10
Donley Station (historical)	12.4 miles	10
Otley	13.7 miles	11
Caloma	14.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464258. 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.