BlockQuick, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hardin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51548. The Survey maps it on the McClelland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1956 USGS Mc Clelland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Mc Clelland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Quick between 2009 and 2012, burning about 32 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 | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quick in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Hail | Quick | - | Trained spotter reported substantial amount of nickel to quarter sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Quick | - | Public sent picture of half dollar sized hail via social media. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Quick | - | A tornado touched down near the entrance to the Westfair Amphitheater damaging numerous trees and outbuildings in the area. About half the bleachers on both the west and east sides from the Westfair arena were torn from their foundation anchors and ended in a tangled pile and power poles were damaged. The total track of the tornado was about 1 mile long and a quarter mile wide. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Quick | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McClelland | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Peter | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gilliatt | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Treynor | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Weston | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Chautauqua | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bentley | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Underwood | 6.7 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464709. 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.
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.