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Nasset, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52101. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle.

Nasset within Winneshiek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Nasset between 2009 and 2019, burning about 442 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 August 2012Debris and open burning32 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2018Debris and open burning300 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Recreation and ceremony25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning18 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Nasset: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Unnamed DiggingsLeadOccurrenceGalena
Freeport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seegmiller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ask QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bolson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Estrem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sersland-Smorstad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek 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
Thoten2.3 miles12
Washington Prairie3.0 miles11
Freeport4.2 miles12
Canoe (historical)4.6 miles12
Decorah6.4 miles12
Nordness6.5 miles12
Frankville7.1 miles11
Sattre7.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122596723The 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 465558. 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.