BlockNew Boston, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Charleston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52625. The Survey maps it on the Argyle quadrangle. It stands 696 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Argyle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of New Boston between 2006 and 2012, burning about 21 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 | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 218 & 240TH ST., S OF DONNELLSON, IOWA |
| 19 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2050 238TH ST., IA |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Boston: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Madison Conversion Mo Plant | Molybdenum | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Boston in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | New Boston | $2,000 | A mesoscale convective system moved across northern Missouri during the night of the 12th and early morning of the 13th. The north edge of the storms clipped extreme southeast Iowa during the mid morning hours. Dime-size hail was reported north of New Boston as the storms passed. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Boston | $1,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew a roof off of a small storage shed and caused some minor damage to a barn about 6 miles south southeast of Donnellson along Highway 218 near Charleston or just northwest of New Boston, IA around 410 pm CDT May 8. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | New Boston | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Boston | - | Several tree branches were blown down. |
| April 2002 | Hail | New Boston | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bricker (historical) | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Argyle | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Clare | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Jeffersonville (historical) | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Montrose | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Viele | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Vincennes | 5.6 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on New Boston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7005606 | The 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 459469. 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.