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Ridgeport, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Dodge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50036. The Survey maps it on the Fraser quadrangle.

Ridgeport within Boone County

On record in Ridgeport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeport between 2007 and 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1954 390TH ST. STRATFORD, IA
14 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3186 SOUTH RIVER WAY STRATFORD, IA
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1379 390TH ST. STRATFORD, IA, IA
16 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ridgeport: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Laube PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nystrom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stumbo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeport in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 4 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2008FloodRidgeport$100,000no account filed
June 2008FloodRidgeport$100,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodRidgeport$50,000Intersection of County Highways R27 and E18 closed due to flooding. Over a foot of water was reported flowing over a gravel road in the same area. Four to 5 inches of rainfall has been measured.
April 2008FloodRidgeport$10,000no account filed
May 2010HailRidgeport$3,000Law Enforcement reports up to quarter size hail at the intersection of E18 and Nature Road.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Ridgeport-This was a short-lived tornado that formed on the leading edge of a QLCS. It stayed in rural areas and caused some minor crop and tree damage, but did not cause any known damage to structures.
August 2015Heavy RainRidgeport-City of Ames alert station reported heavy rainfall of 5.60 inches since 5am.
August 2014Heavy RainRidgeport-Rainfall of 1.75 inches was measured in the past 24 hours.
August 2010FloodRidgeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Fraser4.3 miles12
Pilot Mound5.3 miles11
Centerville5.9 miles13
Wolf6.5 miles11
Griffen6.5 miles12
Logansport7.7 miles13
Boone8.3 miles13
Mackey8.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460628. 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.