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Rubio, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52585. It stands on Richland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle.

Rubio within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rubio between 2006 and 2020, burning about 89 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 April 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2017Recreation and ceremony10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 March 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rubio in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2010FloodRubio$250,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRubio$1,000A trained spotter reported several trees were damaged, and some boards were blown off the railroad walkway.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindRubio-Tree limbs down that were several inches in diameter.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRubio-A trained spotter reported flattened corn. The time of the event was estimated using radar.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Grace Hill6.4 miles7
Brighton7.0 miles7
Titu8.6 miles7
West Chester10.3 miles7
Eureka (historical)11.9 miles7
Lexington14.0 miles7
Washington14.0 miles7
Nira16.1 miles7

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 RubioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7376153The 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 460841. 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.

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.