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Temple Hill, Iowa

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52033. The Survey maps it on the Canton quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Temple Hill within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Temple Hill in 2007, burning under an acre 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/undetermined1

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
12 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Temple Hill: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Finn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Finn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oeschger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Temple Hill in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2010Thunderstorm WindTemple Hill$100,000Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew a semi-truck over on Highway 136 about 3 miles south of Cascade, IA around 2 pm CDT September 21.
April 2026HailTemple Hill-Reported on Mping.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindTemple Hill-Emergency Manager reported a 90 MPG thunderstorm wind gust.
February 2024HailTemple Hill-Report received from Mping.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTemple Hill-A maple tree was uprooted and a pine tree was snapped off.
June 2008HailTemple Hill-Nickel-sized hail fell in Cascade, IA at 3:00 pm June 20. This is a NSSL SHAVE Project report.
June 2008HailTemple Hill-Penny-sized hail fell near Temple Hill, IA around 3:30 pm June 20. The hail accumulated on the ground to a depth of 1 inch. This is a NSSL SHAVE Project report.
August 2008HailTemple Hill-Nickel-sized hail fell 1 mile west southwest of Cascade, IA at 515 pm August 4.
August 2008HailTemple Hill-Half dollar-sized hail fell 4 miles southeast of Cascade, IA at 652 am August 3.
June 2001Funnel CloudTemple Hill-Reported by public.
May 1999HailTemple Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
McGargels Ford3.0 miles17
Clay Mills3.4 miles17
Ebys Mill4.7 miles15
Dales Ford4.9 miles15
Canton6.1 miles17
Johnson (historical)6.1 miles15
Springhole6.5 miles15
Scotch Grove7.9 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on Temple HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7698560The 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 464775. 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.