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Savannah, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wyacondah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52537. The Survey maps it on the Bunker Hill quadrangle.

Savannah within Davis 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

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Savannah between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,969 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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 September 2020Debris and open burning27 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2020Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarism30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning116 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning87 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning123 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Savannah: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Orill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savannah in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 heavy rain, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021Heavy RainSavannah-Coop observer reported 3.14 inches of rain in 24 hours.
July 2021Heavy RainSavannah-A 24 hour rainfall report of 2.20 inches.
August 2019HailSavannah-Public relayed picture of quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
August 2019HailSavannah-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.
August 2018Heavy RainSavannah-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.46 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Savannah-Public reported a tornado near the town of Savannah moving northeast.

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Lunsford1.8 miles7
Mark3.9 miles7
Stiles5.5 miles7
Russellville (historical)6.3 miles7
Monterey7.3 miles7
Steuben7.7 miles8
West Grove8.9 miles7
Bloomfield9.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 461435. 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.