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South Augusta, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Denmark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52658. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle.

South Augusta within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of South Augusta between 2018 and 2020, burning about 122 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 burning9
Smoking1

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
6 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Debris and open burning60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2020Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2020Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

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 South Augusta: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Augusta QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Beach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bietsch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Heinold QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Prospect Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ward QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Augusta in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 4 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
July 2010FloodSouth Augusta$125,000no account filed
March 2019FloodSouth Augusta-Heavy rain and snow melt across the region caused the Skunk River south of Augusta to rise above major flood stage of 20.0 feet on March 12th. The river fell back below major flood stage on the 13th. The river crested at 21.25 feet during the evening of the 12th.
May 2013FloodSouth Augusta-Heavy rains during the last week of May led to rapid rises on the Skunk River at Augusta, Ia. The river rose above major flood stage of 20 feet in the early morning hours of the 30th and and very gradually rose through the end of the month.
April 2013FloodSouth Augusta-no account filed

Every storm 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
Denmark3.3 miles15
Wever3.8 miles17
Sawyer5.6 miles15
Summit (historical)6.7 miles15
Fort Madison8.7 miles15
West Point9.5 miles15
Bullard (historical)11.6 miles15
Viele12.7 miles15

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 Q122595423The 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 461758. 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.

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.