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Napier, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50014. The Survey maps it on the Slater quadrangle.

Napier within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Napier between 2011 and 2020, burning about 2 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/undetermined6

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
15 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3890 230TH ST., IA
7 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napier in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNapier$75,000Emergency manager reported multiple farmsteads with roofs blown off, damage to several outbuildings, a garage blown off the foundation, and power lines down. The roof and upper levels of an old corn crib were blown off, windows broken from debris blowing into the window, a garage door was ripped off the track, 6 inch diameter tree limbs were down, large trees were down blocking a road. Another large tree limb landed on a van and porch roof destroying the van and roof.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindNapier$75,000Boone County Emergency Manager reported a 3 mile stretch of damage from 1.5 W of Napier to 3 miles NE of Napier. Damaged included roof off old grain bin, damaged barn, and a one foot diameter pine tree down. All damage was in one direction. Time estimated from radar.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNapier$40,000no account filed
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Napier$25,000Short-lived tornado that did some minor damage at a farmstead in rural Boone County before moving into open farmland.
June 2008HailNapier$20,000Hail was oblong with the major axis up to 3.25 inches in length.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Napier$5,000This tornado was found in hi-resolution satellite imagery and crossed mostly open farm fields. The tornado did damage trees across the corner of one farmstead but otherwise did little other damage. This tornado continued into Story county.
June 2008HailNapier$5,000Hail just smaller than golf ball size was reported at the intersection of 300th and Y ave.
June 2008HailNapier$5,000no account filed
July 2008HailNapier$1,000no account filed
March 2023HailNapier-Estimated accompanying winds at 50 mph.
July 2023Heavy RainNapier-Event total of 3.63 inches.
June 2018HailNapier-Public reported quarter sized hail.
August 2018HailNapier-Public reported nickel sized hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNapier-Public reported a 76 mph wind gust that was measured by their home weather station.
September 2016Heavy RainNapier-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.01 inches over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Funnel CloudNapier-Several additional reports of this funnel cloud were received from the public and Story County Emergency Manager as the storm and funnel cloud crossed into Story County west of Kelley. It lasted for a few minutes moving very slowly from Boone County into Story County never touching down. There is a separate entry for this funnel cloud for Story County.

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
Ericson5.3 miles13
Luther5.4 miles13
Jordan5.9 miles13
Madrid9.0 miles13
Boone10.2 miles13
Moingona11.7 miles13
Coal Valley12.8 miles13
Mackey13.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 459433. 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.

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.