Osgood, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50536. The Survey maps it on the Graettinger East quadrangle.

Osgood within Palo Alto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Graettinger East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Osgood: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hankey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hurd Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lammers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Palo Alto County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osgood in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2014	Flash Flood	Osgood	$50,000	Water over 450th Avenue near the 3100 block.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Osgood	$25,000	Law enforcement reported damage to outbuilding and trees uprooted. Time estimated from radar.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Osgood	-	Large trees down. Delayed report, time estimated via radar.
July 2021	Funnel Cloud	Osgood	-	Delayed report relayed by law enforcement of funnel cloud. A funnel cloud picture was also noted on social media.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Osgood	-	Water over the intersection of 280th Street and 460th Avenue due to the Jack Creek overflow.
May 2011	Hail	Osgood	-	Pea to nickel size hail.
May 2023	Hail	Osgood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Alto 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Graettinger	4.1 miles	7
Fallow (historical)	5.4 miles	7
Emmetsburg	5.6 miles	7
Depew	8.4 miles	7
Cylinder	10.7 miles	7
Ruthven	11.4 miles	7
Ayrshire	12.7 miles	7
Fairville	12.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 459907. 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.

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.