Sweetland Center, Iowa
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sweetland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52761. The Survey maps it on the Illinois City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1916 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1938 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Illinois City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Illinois City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sweetland Center between 2013 and 2014, burning about 87 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 burning | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 October 2014 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sweetland Center: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alteneder Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Hintermeister Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lindburg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Melpine Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetland Center in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweetland Center | $50,000 | Grain bin blown over with trees into houses. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Sweetland Center | - | Muscatine County 911 Dispatch Center reported standing water at the 2900 block of 155th Street. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweetland Center | - | Wind measurement reported by storm chaser. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweetland Center | - | Spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Sweetland Center | - | Water reported flowing over Highway 38. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Sweetland Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Sweetland Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Sweetland Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Sweetland Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Sweetland Center | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| New Era | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Fairport | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Mills (historical) | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Kent Estates | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Prairie | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Muscatine | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| South Towne Park | 6.7 miles | 14 |
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 Q122597668 | 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 464769. 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.









