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Republic, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50645. The Survey maps it on the Tripoli NW quadrangle.

Republic within Chickasaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Republic between 2010 and 2018, burning about 821 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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
6 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources270TH ST., IA
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources270TH AND FAYETTE AVE, IA
1 April 2015Debris and open burning750 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2175 290TH, NEW HAMPTON, IOWA
21 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2026 240TH ST., NEW HAMPTON, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chickasaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Republic: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chickasaw County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Republic in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2021Funnel CloudRepublic-A funnel cloud was sighted southeast of Ionia.
June 2007HailRepublic-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chickasaw 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
Williamstown4.3 miles9
Dresden (historical)4.6 miles9
Bradford5.8 miles9
Ionia6.5 miles7
Nashua7.4 miles9
Chickasaw7.7 miles7
Boyd8.5 miles7
New Hampton8.6 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460589. 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.