Parksville, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52535. The Survey maps it on the Mount Zion quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Parksville within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Mount Zion quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Parksville (historical) between 2001 and 2017, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 February 2017	Smoking	150 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 November 2001	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Parksville (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Miller Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Birmingham	1.3 miles	11
Winchester	1.9 miles	11
Kilbourn	4.9 miles	11
Stockport	4.9 miles	11
Mount Zion	5.5 miles	11
Utica	6.2 miles	11
Pierceville	7.7 miles	11
Douds	8.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465340. 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.