Seneca, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seneca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50539. The Survey maps it on the Seneca quadrangle.

Seneca within Kossuth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Seneca: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Hoien Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Seneca Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kossuth County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seneca in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 4 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2018	Flood	Seneca	$50,000	Law enforcement reported some roads closed in rural areas due to water over the road from several rounds of heavy rainfall. Rises also noted local creeks and streams and some overland flooding.
May 2015	Hail	Seneca	$5,000	A trained spotter reported that quarter size hail nearly covered the gruond.
June 2010	Hail	Seneca	$5,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$5,000	no account filed
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Seneca	-	A trained spotter reported an updated total of 4.25 inches of rain.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Seneca	-	A trained spotter reported 3.6 inches of rainfall.
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Seneca	-	The funnel cloud was reportedly under a well defined wall cloud.
April 2011	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Seneca	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kossuth 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fenton	6.0 miles	7
Lone Rock	6.3 miles	7
Swea City	6.9 miles	7
Swea (historical)	8.0 miles	7
Bancroft	8.8 miles	7
Lotts Creek	9.9 miles	7
Burt	11.2 miles	7
Gerled	11.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 461505. 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.

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.