Peter, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Norwalk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51576. It stands on Mamie Creek. The Survey maps it on the McClelland quadrangle.

Peter within Pottawattamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Mc Clelland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Mc Clelland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Peter between 2006 and 2020, burning about 88 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2012	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 February 2020	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie 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
McClelland	2.4 miles	12
Bentley	2.4 miles	11
Underwood	2.5 miles	11
Quick	4.5 miles	12
Weston	4.7 miles	12
York Center	5.4 miles	11
Neola	6.8 miles	11
Gilliatt	7.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464696. 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.