Palestine, Iowa

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 5 records

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

• Bonaparte Pottery Archeological Districtlisted 1999 · 0.4 miles away
• Bonaparte Historic Riverfront Districtlisted 1989 · 0.6 miles away
• Meek's Flour Milllisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
• Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7listed 1977 · 0.6 miles away
• Aunty Green Hotellisted 1978 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Bonaparte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Palestine (historical) between 2006 and 2014, burning about 32 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Farmington
• Plymouth
• Bonaparte
• Lexington (historical)
• Harrisburg

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Palestine (historical): 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465350. 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.