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Shipley, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50201. The Survey maps it on the Huxley quadrangle.

Shipley within Story County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

54 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Shipley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2017Smoking1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Story County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shipley in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 heavy rain, 3 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Flash FloodShipley$50,000Water was reported over gravel roads from drainage from farm fields.
May 2018HailShipley$10,000Public reported estimated golf ball sized hail along I-35 south of Ames. Report came via text message picture.
June 2008HailShipley$2,000no account filed
May 2024HailShipley-Social media report between Cambridge and Nevada.
June 2018Heavy RainShipley-Public reported heavy rainfall of 6.50 inches.
August 2015Heavy RainShipley-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.73 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2015Heavy RainShipley-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall storm total of 2.07 inches. End time based on radar.
September 2014Heavy RainShipley-Rainfall of 2.43 inches.
April 2014Heavy RainShipley-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 2.41 inches.

Every storm recorded in Story 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
Nevada4.3 miles9
Robison-Whitaker Acres5.5 miles8
Cambridge5.7 miles11
Midvale6.3 miles11
Bloomington6.6 miles16
Iowa Center6.7 miles8
Ames6.9 miles16
Huxley7.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 461582. 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.

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.