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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.

Sweetland Center within Muscatine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2013

Regional 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 burning5

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
6 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 October 2014Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscatine 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alteneder QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Hintermeister QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lindburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Melpine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muscatine County

Storms near this place

10 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSweetland Center$50,000Grain bin blown over with trees into houses.
May 2025Flash FloodSweetland Center-Muscatine County 911 Dispatch Center reported standing water at the 2900 block of 155th Street.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSweetland Center-Wind measurement reported by storm chaser.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSweetland Center-Spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2020Flash FloodSweetland Center-Water reported flowing over Highway 38.
April 2020HailSweetland Center-no account filed
July 2020HailSweetland Center-no account filed
May 2013HailSweetland Center-no account filed
May 2010HailSweetland Center-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudSweetland Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muscatine 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
Summit3.0 miles14
New Era4.5 miles15
Fairport5.3 miles15
Pine Mills (historical)5.5 miles15
Kent Estates5.5 miles12
Pleasant Prairie5.6 miles15
Muscatine6.1 miles12
South Towne Park6.7 miles14

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 Q122597668The 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.