BlockBefore

Stonega, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Blairsburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50595. The Survey maps it on the Blairsburg quadrangle.

Stonega within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stonega between 2006 and 2019, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
30 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWEBSTER CITY
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Stonega: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Daniels QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Luppes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M M StarkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonega in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Stonega$50,000A trained spotter sent a photo of a tornado and had driven back to the area where it was sighted. Tree damage and minor damage was noted on three farmsteads with the tornado track toward the southeast.
July 2013HailStonega$5,000no account filed
July 2013HailStonega$2,000no account filed
May 2007HailStonega$1,000no account filed
July 2011Funnel CloudStonega-Hamilton County Law Enforcement received multiple reports of short lived funnel clouds in northern parts of the county. A deputy reported one more persistent funnel cloud a few miles southwest of Blairsburg off of Highway 20.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Remicker (historical)0.7 miles9
Blairsburg3.8 miles9
Webster City5.4 miles9
Kamrar5.9 miles9
Williams9.0 miles9
Highview10.0 miles9
Jewell12.4 miles9
Homer13.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464763. 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.