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Triboji Beach, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lakeville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51360. The Survey maps it on the Okoboji quadrangle.

Triboji Beach within Dickinson County

On record in Triboji Beach

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

4 surveys from 8 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Triboji Beach between 2006 and 2020, burning about 435 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictKETTELSON
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2017Debris and open burning2.2 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources25271 182ND ST., CENTER GROVE TWP, SPIRIT LAKE, IA
30 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictMOLLENDORP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Triboji Beach: 17 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Frey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
GundersonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mayou PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Neppel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Triboji Beach in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindTriboji Beach$75,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree, power pole, and power line damage, with resulting power outages. Some roads were blocked by fallen trees, and a few vehicles sustained minor damage from tree debris.
July 2024FloodTriboji Beach-Flooding continued from June on West Okoboji Lake near Milford, with declining lake levels. The lake fell below flood stage on the evening of July 14th.
June 2024FloodTriboji Beach-West Okoboji Lake near Milford rose above flood stage the afternoon of June 21st, cresting around 2.61 feet above flood stage (8.11 feet) on June 25th. The lake remained above flood into July. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Dickinson County.
July 2018FloodTriboji Beach-A no-wake rule was implemented on Lake Okoboji as well as all other lakes in Dickinson County as levels approached minor flood stage on July 4. Lake levels crested at 0.1 foot above flood stage on West Lake Okoboji (gage site OBJI4) on July 5. The no-wake rule was relaxed on July 11.
May 2022HailTriboji Beach-no account filed
June 2016HailTriboji Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Beaches Resort0.1 miles8
Egralharve1.7 miles8
Montgomery1.8 miles8
Manhattan Beach Resort2.5 miles8
Okoboji3.1 miles8
Village East Resort3.7 miles8
Spirit Lake3.9 miles7
Wahpeton4.2 miles8

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 Q122543608The 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 462301. 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.