BlockTarkio City, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Tarkio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51632. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1940 USGS Coin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Coin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Coin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tarkio City (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 43 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorktown | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Norwich | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Page Center | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bingham | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Coin | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Clarinda | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| College Springs | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bethesda | 9.2 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465450. 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.