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Thirty, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Vermillion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52544. The Survey maps it on the Centerville East quadrangle.

Thirty within Appanoose County

On record in Thirty

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Thirty between 2006 and 2019, burning about 336 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined82 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2019Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2014Arson/incendiarism120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Thirty: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Centerville Gypsum Co. MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centerville Clay Products Co.ClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
Centerville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Farnsworth-Mott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kincade QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mott Quarries ShopStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thirty in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2007Flash FloodThirty$250,000Homes in the area were threatened by flash flooding.
June 2019HailThirty$5,000Public reported half dollar sized hail.
June 2017HailThirty$5,000Law enforcement reported larger than baseball sized hail.
April 2024HailThirty-Report via mping.
April 2024HailThirty-Delayed report, time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Streepy2.6 miles11
Centerville2.6 miles11
Sedan3.3 miles11
Exline3.5 miles11
Sunshine4.3 miles11
Martinstown4.9 miles11
Forbush5.0 miles9
Cincinnati5.4 miles11

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 Q122539557The 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 462211. 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.