BlockSpring Fountain, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sumner No. 2 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50674. The Survey maps it on the Sumner SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Sumner SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Spring Fountain between 2010 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 1 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1781 VIKING AVE SUMNER, IA 50674, IA |
| 12 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1357 SABLE SUMNER, IA 50674, IA |
| 12 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 3168 110TH ST. SUMNER, IA 50674, IA |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spring Fountain: 3 unknowns. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tripoli | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Old Tripoli | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sumner | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Buck Creek | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Frederika | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Wapsie | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Knittel | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Miner | 9.2 miles | 9 |
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 Q122553049 | The 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 464753. 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.