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New Albion, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50665. It stands on Freddeke Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coster quadrangle.

New Albion within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of New Albion between 2006 and 2014, burning about 167 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
25 April 2013Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Albion: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Oltmann QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Albion in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2014Tornado (EF0)New Albion-Produced crop damage and the likely merged with another tornado before dissipating. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
May 2012HailNew Albion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Coster2.3 miles9
Butler Center4.7 miles9
Parkersburg5.4 miles9
Eleanor6.5 miles9
New Hartford7.8 miles9
Allison8.3 miles9
Aplington9.1 miles9
Shell Rock9.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464665. 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.