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Sycamore Village, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50022. It stands on Troublesome Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wiota quadrangle.

Sycamore Village within Cass County

On record in Sycamore Village

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 within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

24 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sycamore Village between 2009 and 2017, burning about 70 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources63234 GREAT RIVER RD, ATLANTIC, IOWA
28 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesATLANTIC FIRE DEPT.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sycamore Village: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Atlantic QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Seventy-One QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Atlantic PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcdermott PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Atlantic0.9 miles9
Grove City (historical)2.3 miles9
Lorah4.9 miles9
Wiota5.9 miles9
Marne6.8 miles9
Norway Center7.9 miles9
Lewis8.3 miles10
Indiantown (historical)8.8 miles10

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 Q122544738The 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 1969071. 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.