Prussia, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Prussia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50846. The Survey maps it on the Fontanelle quadrangle.

Prussia within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Fontanelle quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Prussia between 2011 and 2020, burning about 385 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	2
Debris and open burning	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
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	150TH AND LEWIS SE OF CASEY, IA
12 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	150TH AND MARION ST. CASEY, IA, IA
6 March 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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
Lemont (historical)	3.4 miles	10
Canby	4.4 miles	10
Rosserdale	5.3 miles	10
Greenfield	5.3 miles	10
Fontanelle	6.5 miles	9
Linwood	7.2 miles	10
Howe	7.2 miles	10
Berea	9.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464247. 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.