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Stuart, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 50250. The Survey maps it on the Stuart North quadrangle.

Stuart within Guthrie County

On record in Stuart

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 3 records

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

41 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Stuart between 2006 and 2020, burning about 428 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources3513 330TH TRAIL, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stuart in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 16 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindStuart$50,000Emergency manager reported numerous instances across Guthrie County to the Adair County line of wind damage. This included 40x60 machine shed roof taken off 4 miles SW of Panora, power lines down in Jamaica from blown over tree, power lines down in Stuart due to tree damage.
April 1994HailStuart$50,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindStuart$15,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindStuart$15,000no account filed
July 1999HailStuart$15,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindStuart$10,000Ten inch diameter trees down in town.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindStuart$10,000no account filed
May 2005HailStuart$10,000no account filed
November 2005HailStuart$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailStuart$10,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStuart$5,000Several 6 to 8 inch tree limbs blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStuart$5,000Several trees were blown down by high winds.
June 2011LightningStuart$5,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStuart$5,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindStuart$5,000no account filed
March 1993HailStuart$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailStuart$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailStuart$3,000no account filed
June 2013HailStuart$2,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStuart$2,000no account filed
July 1999HailStuart$1,000no account filed
August 2022HailStuart-Report of quarter sized hail with no accompanying strong winds.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStuart-Large tree down. Time estimated via radar.
May 2018Funnel CloudStuart-Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near Stuart.
May 2018HailStuart-Public reported quarter size hail. Time was estimated from radar.
September 2018HailStuart-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.
April 2017HailStuart-Emergency manager reported penny sized hail.
June 2015Funnel CloudStuart-Fire department in Stuart reported a funnel cloud just north of Stuart.
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Stuart-Tornado touched down in rural countryside east of Stuart.
April 2015HailStuart-no account filed
June 2011HailStuart-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindStuart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guthrie 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
Diamondhead Lake4.5 miles11
Menlo4.7 miles11
Dale6.5 miles11
Morrisburgh (historical)6.7 miles11
Glendon7.7 miles11
Monteith10.6 miles11
Casey10.6 miles9
Panora13.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 462041. 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.

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.