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Paris, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52214. It stands on Walton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Central City quadrangle.

Paris within Linn County

On record in Paris

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

9 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Paris between 2013 and 2017, burning about 62 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/undetermined1
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
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Paris: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Troy Mills Quarry and Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bettenbender QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boddicker-Murray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Central City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coggon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cook QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2007Tornado (EF1)Paris$50,000A tornado briefly touched down just west of Paris, IA, or about 14.5 miles north of Cedar Rapids, IA around 7:15 PM on July 18th. It destroyed a farm shed completely, ripped part of a roof off of another farm shed, and damaged several trees and crops in the area.
May 2014HailParis-Quarter sized hail fell about 4 miles west of Central City, IA at 506 pm CDT May 20.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindParis-A trained spotter measured 76 mph winds from an anemometer before the equipment broke. Large trees were blown down.
April 2010HailParis-Non-severe hail (<1.0) fell about 3 miles north northwest of Paris, IA at 718 pm April 6.

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Rogers2.9 miles15
Central City3.8 miles15
Coggon3.9 miles10
Paris (historical)6.4 miles14
Troy Mills6.5 miles10
Alburnett6.6 miles15
Alice6.8 miles15
Jordans Grove7.1 miles14

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 ParisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7137161The 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 466176. 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.