BlockRoss, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Leroy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50025. The Survey maps it on the Gray quadrangle. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
On record in Ross
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Ross Grain Elevatorlisted 2018 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Gray quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ross in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 7 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Ross | $10,000 | Water covering the County Highway N14 bridge that crosses Indian Creek. About one half mile of the road was under water. The worst area of flooding was 5 miles either side of a line from Kimballton to Audubon. A log was left on a bridge over the creek after the water had receded. Multiple locations required gravel grading and debris removal off of county roads. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ross | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Ross | - | Trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Ross | - | Trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Ross | - | Hail was near the intersection of 150th and Falcon. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Ross | - | 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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Ross | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18391186 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460813. 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.
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.