Petersville, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Waterford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52731. The Survey maps it on the Delmar South quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Petersville within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS DeWitt quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1891 USGS Dewitt quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Rock Island quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1910 USGS Rock Island quadrangle1:125000
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Delmar South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Petersville in 2009, burning about 10 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	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
13 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Petersville: 2 past producers. 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
	Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Petersville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Riggs	2.6 miles	17
Charlotte	3.7 miles	16
Delmar	4.6 miles	17
Browns	4.7 miles	13
Welton	5.2 miles	14
North Welton	5.3 miles	14
Goose Lake	8.0 miles	16
Bliedorn	8.9 miles	13

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 Petersville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20710320	The 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 464697. 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.