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Newport, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Newport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52240. The Survey maps it on the Iowa City East quadrangle.

Newport within Johnson County

On record in Newport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

30 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 2006 and 2018, burning about 134 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Meyer QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dingleberry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Donovan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stahle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vanourney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vogel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2006HailNewport$7,000no account filed
July 2022Flash FloodNewport-Rapid Creek at Wilson's Orchard came out of its banks, overspreading an area the size of a football field with 2 to 3 feet of fast flowing water. Access to the south side of the orchard was cut off.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindNewport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Morse2.2 miles14
Elmira2.8 miles14
Graham (historical)4.5 miles14
Solon4.9 miles12
Oasis5.2 miles14
Iowa City6.1 miles19
North Liberty6.6 miles19
Coralville7.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 459513. 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.