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Newburg, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hickory Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50112. The Survey maps it on the Newburg quadrangle. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Newburg within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Newburg between 2006 and 2013, burning about 70 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
Debris and open burning1

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
24 April 2013Debris and open burning17 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newburg in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNewburg$35,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNewburg$15,000Emergency manager reported damage to farm outbuildings near Gilman. Time estimated from radar.
April 2014HailNewburg$1,000no account filed
May 2013HailNewburg$1,000no account filed
March 2005HailNewburg$1,000no account filed
May 2024Heavy RainNewburg-Personal weather station reported 24 hr heavy rainfall of 5.15 inches. Numerous other 3 to 5 inch amounts across northern Jasper County as well.
July 2022Funnel CloudNewburg-Delayed report, time estimated by radar.
June 2019HailNewburg-Public reported quarter sized hail via the mPING app.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Newburg-Brief tornado touchdown in open fields.
June 2009HailNewburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Oakland Acres7.4 miles8
Turner (historical)8.4 miles8
Kellogg9.9 miles9
Rushville9.9 miles8
Murphy15.3 miles9
Killduff16.1 miles8
Lynnville16.6 miles8
Newton16.7 miles8

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 NewburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107548099The 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 459502. 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.