Skunk River, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52601. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dallas City quadrangle.

Skunk River within Des Moines County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1932 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Dallas City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Skunk River between 2013 and 2020, burning about 92 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
Debris and open burning	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2020	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 March 2020	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 January 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Des Moines County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Skunk River: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Kemper Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Spring Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Augusta Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beach Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bietsch Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lange Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Prospect Hill Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sullivan Slough Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Des Moines 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
Spring Grove	2.4 miles	17
Patterson	3.3 miles	17
Oak Hills	3.6 miles	17
Kemper	4.3 miles	14
Augusta	4.5 miles	11
West Burlington	7.2 miles	17
Burlington	7.3 miles	18
Middletown	7.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464341. 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.