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Rockingham, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Davenport City. It lies in ZIP code area 52802. It lies near Credit Island. The Survey maps it on the Andalusia quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rockingham within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

27 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Rockingham (historical) between 2008 and 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined12
Smoking6
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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
23 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR2
16 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI280 11
11 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR
6 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCANAL
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION
11 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAST
5 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILAN
31 July 2010Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILAN3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Rockingham (historical): 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Linwood Lime PlantCalciumProducer
Big Island Plant #51 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders Sand and Gravel Co. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
General Pit No. 3 Milan PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Allied Stone Plant #30Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Linwood Stone Products Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Martin Marietta-Buffalo Cement PlntStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Milan Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Island City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
U. S. Army EngineersStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Nahant0.4 miles19
Chapel Hill (historical)1.0 miles19
Walnut Grove1.7 miles19
Black Hawk2.7 miles18
Linwood2.7 miles19
Jamestown4.0 miles19
Davenport4.1 miles20
Buffalo Heights4.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465341. 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.