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Santiago, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50169. It stands on Santiago Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mitchellville quadrangle.

Santiago within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Santiago between 2007 and 2017, burning about 191 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
5 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources10500 NE HUBBLE, IA
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2013Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Santiago: 4 past producers. None of them 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
Perkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santiago in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 funnel cloud, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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 2010Flash FloodSantiago1 killed, 4 hurt, $100,000Water rescue in progress regarding three vehicles with a total of 11 people near NE 8th Ave and NE 54th Ave. There was one fatality, 10 rescues and several injuries.
August 2010Flash FloodSantiago$50,000Flooding along Mud Creek.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSantiago$25,000Roof blown off of a modular building at the Mitchellville Correctional Facility.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSantiago$15,000Mitchellville Fire Department reeported several trees down in town. Also 8 to 10 inch diameter branches snapped.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSantiago$15,000Public reported damage to an outbuilding and windows blown out.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)Santiago-This tornado remained in rural cropland. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating.
June 2021Funnel CloudSantiago-Public report of a funnel cloud northwest of Altoona lasting 5 to 10 minutes.
June 2018Heavy RainSantiago-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.14 inches and that roadside ditches were full of water.
July 2018Funnel CloudSantiago-Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud just west of Mitchellville.
June 2024Funnel CloudSantiago-no account filed
June 2024Funnel CloudSantiago-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Mitchellville3.0 miles11
Bondurant4.7 miles12
Altoona6.6 miles12
Farrar6.6 miles8
Ivy7.9 miles11
Enterprise8.4 miles16
Quilhart (historical)8.4 miles16
White Oak8.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 461423. 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.