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Probstei, Iowa

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Davenport City. It lies in ZIP code area 52806. The Survey maps it on the Davenport West quadrangle.

Probstei within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Probstei between 2006 and 2014, burning about 20 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/undetermined5
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
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1776 E 49, IA
18 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1833 E 49, IA
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources13000 NEW LIBERTY RD, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 Probstei: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Buffalo QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Lakewood Park0.8 miles18
Green Acres2.9 miles20
Ridgeview Park3.1 miles20
Little Groves3.3 miles18
Black Hawk4.4 miles18
Maysville5.5 miles18
Mount Joy5.6 miles20
Walcott5.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122566348The 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 460457. 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.