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Streepy, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bellair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52544. The Survey maps it on the Centerville West quadrangle.

Streepy within Appanoose County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Streepy between 2015 and 2019, burning about 212 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
5 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined82 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2019Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Streepy: 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Centerville Gypsum Co. MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carter-Waters Corp. PlantClayProducer
Centerville Clay Products Co.ClayPast Producer
Centerville QuarryClayProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Centerville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Farnsworth-Mott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kincade QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Streepy in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 flash 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
August 2007Flash FloodStreepy$500,000Water rescues occurred southwest of Mystic. Numerous county roads were under water throughout the county.

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Martinstown2.4 miles11
Thirty2.6 miles11
Sunshine3.0 miles11
Numa3.3 miles11
Bellair (historical)3.4 miles11
Centerville3.4 miles11
Cincinnati4.5 miles11
Brazil4.7 miles9

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 Q122559713The 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 464764. 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.