Rose, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Peru Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52001. It stands on Little Maquoketa River. The Survey maps it on the Dubuque North quadrangle.

Rose within Dubuque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1900 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000
1908 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rose between 1996 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20052
24 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	McGregor District, Upper Mississippi River Complex	JDMARSH
17 March 2000	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Rose: 12 past producers, 5 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Becker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Bonson Mine	Zinc, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Galena, Limonite, Sphalerite
Creek Bank	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer
Red Dog Mine	Zinc, Iron, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Durango Drybone Mine Ewing Diggings	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Smithsonite
Levens Mine North Langworthy Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Bonson Mine	Zinc, Lead	Unknown	Sphalerite
Durango Drybone Mine	Zinc, Lead	Unknown	Sphalerite
Eagle Point Lime Works	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sageville	2.1 miles	19
Edmore	2.1 miles	19
Frith Spur	2.2 miles	19
Durango	4.3 miles	16
Eagle Point	4.4 miles	19
Sherrill	4.8 miles	16
Asbury	5.4 miles	16
Dubuque	5.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464727. 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.