BlockSelection, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52531. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1939 USGS Mystic quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Mystic quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Moravia quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selection in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Selection | $50,000 | Gravel road 637th trail was damaged, rutted, and partially washed out by heavy rain. Overnight total was 4.25 inches. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Selection | - | Law enforcement reported water 12-15 inches deep flowing over 370th Ave just north of 245th St in far southeast Monroe county. Lots of standing water throughout the town of Blakesburg. |
| April 2010 | Flood | Selection | - | 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.
| Wikidata item Q122542349 | 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 461501. 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.