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Pigeon, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Boomer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51559. The Survey maps it on the Honey Creek quadrangle.

Pigeon within Pottawattamie County

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

14 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon between 2014 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
22 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2016Natural2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesMISSOURI VALLEY FIRE DEPT.
28 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesMISSOURI VALLEY FIRE DEPT.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Honey Creek4.8 miles12
Grable6.2 miles13
Loveland6.2 miles13
Ascot6.8 miles13
Underwood7.6 miles11
Crescent7.6 miles14
Weston8.5 miles12
Neola9.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464236. 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.