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South Towne Park, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Wilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52778. The Survey maps it on the Wilton quadrangle.

South Towne Park within Muscatine County

On record in South Towne Park

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 5 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

12 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of South Towne Park between 2011 and 2020, burning about 101 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
10 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2020Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Smoking3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscatine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Towne Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Mc Killip Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muscatine 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
Wilton0.6 miles14
Moscow4.1 miles14
Summit5.4 miles14
Sweetland Center6.7 miles15
Stockton7.8 miles15
Pleasant Prairie8.3 miles15
Atalissa8.6 miles12
Kent Estates9.2 miles12

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 Q122569909The 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 2000537. 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.