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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Slater quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2011Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 3890 230TH ST., IA |
| 7 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napier | $75,000 | Emergency 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napier | $75,000 | Boone 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napier | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Napier | $25,000 | Short-lived tornado that did some minor damage at a farmstead in rural Boone County before moving into open farmland. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Napier | $20,000 | Hail was oblong with the major axis up to 3.25 inches in length. |
| August 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Napier | $5,000 | This 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 2008 | Hail | Napier | $5,000 | Hail just smaller than golf ball size was reported at the intersection of 300th and Y ave. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Napier | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Napier | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Napier | - | Estimated accompanying winds at 50 mph. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Napier | - | Event total of 3.63 inches. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Napier | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Napier | - | Public reported nickel sized hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napier | - | Public reported a 76 mph wind gust that was measured by their home weather station. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Napier | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.01 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Napier | - | 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. |
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.
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.







