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Queen City, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Quincy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50841. The Survey maps it on the Corning North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Queen City within Adams 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Queen City (historical) between 2007 and 2020, burning about 60 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2014Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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 Queen City (historical): 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
Corning QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Icarid (historical)1.4 miles8
Corning1.9 miles8
Quincy4.9 miles9
Prescott5.3 miles9
Mercer5.4 miles8
Brooks5.7 miles8
Carbon6.8 miles9
Mount Etna8.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465481. 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.