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Sharon, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52626. The Survey maps it on the Farmington quadrangle.

Sharon within Lee County

On record in Sharon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 2008 and 2014, burning about 27 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/undetermined4
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
19 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1672 150TH AVE, NW OF DONNELLSON, IOWA
17 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burning9.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Big Mound2.9 miles11
Mount Hamill3.0 miles11
Primrose3.7 miles12
Russellville (historical)4.0 miles11
La Crew4.1 miles12
Houghton5.0 miles11
Keteban Switch (historical)5.9 miles12
Pilot Grove7.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464741. 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.