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Primrose, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52625. The Survey maps it on the Farmington quadrangle.

Primrose within Lee County

On record in Primrose

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

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.

Fires near this place

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Primrose between 2006 and 2014, burning about 57 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning2

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
9 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1672 150TH AVE, NW OF DONNELLSON, IOWA
16 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2446 150TH AVE, SW OF DONNELLSON, IOWA
30 March 2014Debris and open burning9.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources160TH AVE & HWY 2, W OF DONNELLSON, IOWA
30 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Primrose: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Donnellson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Primrose in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2010Flash FloodPrimrose$5,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding along 300th Street between Highway 61 and Highway 218 near Montrose and Highway 2 near the Van Buren and Lee County line during the early morning hours of June 21.
July 2025Flash FloodPrimrose-The Department of Highways reported that 170th Street closed from 140th Ave. to 150th Ave. due to high water and flooding.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPrimrose-A tree branch was blown down, falling on a road.
April 2015HailPrimrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Sharon3.7 miles12
Keteban Switch (historical)3.8 miles12
Donnellson4.5 miles12
La Crew4.9 miles12
Mount Hamill5.3 miles11
Big Mound6.4 miles11
Croton6.5 miles12
Franklin6.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460452. 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.