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Petersburg, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52040. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.

Petersburg within Delaware County

On record in Petersburg

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

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 Petersburg between 2006 and 2014, burning about 37 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/undetermined4
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
26 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2539 155TH STREET, EARLVILLE, IA, IOWA
9 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1551 197TH ST., IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Petersburg: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ready Mix Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dyersville No. 1 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Goedkin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schulte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2006LightningPetersburg2 hurtTwo men ages 42 and 29 were assembling a swing set in a backyard. Both noticed lightning in the distance and decided to go inside. Lightning struck a pickup truck both were leaning against and threw them several feet. After an overnight hospitalization for observation, both were released.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Petersburg$100,000A tornado touched down southwest of Petersburg and moved east for approximately 7 miles to the Delaware-Dubuque county line. Along its path, trees, power poles, and numerous farm outbuildings were damaged. It continued to track into Dubuque County.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$25,000A machine shed and two barns were destroyed at the Theisen (pronoused tyson) farm northwest of New Vienna on 160th Street. Additionally a large tree was downed that just missed the house.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$10,000A trained spotter reported several farm buildings damaged near Dyersville.
October 2018Flash FloodPetersburg-Flash flooding closed numerous roads in Delaware County. Flash flooding along a creek resulted in three feet of standing water and stranded cars in Manchester.
August 2002Flash FloodPetersburg-Rural road washed out and inundated with debris.
May 2000HailPetersburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Holy Cross2.8 miles12
Almoral Siding (historical)4.1 miles12
Almoral4.3 miles12
Colesburg5.9 miles13
Earlville6.0 miles12
Greeley7.1 miles12
Oneida7.5 miles12
Gilt Edge7.9 miles12

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 PetersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7178164The 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 460100. 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.