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Toddville, Iowa

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52341. It stands on West Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Rapids North quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Toddville within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Toddville between 2003 and 2017, burning about 28 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2004Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 April 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Toddville: 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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
Fishel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Robins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Aggregates Inc. Site No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cedar Rapids Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oliphant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toddville in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindToddville$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph resulted in several power outages in Toddville, IA at 525 am CDT July 11.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindToddville$4,00010 inch diameter tree snapped and several 8-9 inch diameter pine trees topped.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindToddville$2,000Numerous trees and power lines downed. Reported by emergency management.
May 2016HailToddville-A report relayed by local broadcast media of pea to nickel sized hail.
June 2014FloodToddville-Heavy rains during the second half of June resulted in the Cedar River at Cedar Rapids going above the major flood stage level of 16 feet on June 24 around 1245 am CDT. It crested around 17.34 feet around 1215 am June 25. It fell below the major flood stage level around 9 pm CDT June 25.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindToddville-A 72 mph wind gust was recorded in Toddville, IA around 523 am CDT July 11.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Toddville-A brief tornado touchdown left no apparent damage.
April 2026HailToddville-no account filed
June 2015HailToddville-no account filed
June 2015HailToddville-no account filed
April 2007HailToddville-no account filed
June 2006HailToddville-no account filed
May 2004HailToddville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Midway1.2 miles18
Robins3.3 miles18
Lafayette3.8 miles15
Sunset Village4.3 miles18
New Buffalo4.5 miles18
Hiawatha4.7 miles18
Palo4.7 miles16
Hiawatha Oak Brook Court4.8 miles18

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 ToddvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7812750The 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 462268. 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.