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Troy, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52537. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle.

Troy within Davis County

On record in Troy

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 2008 and 2020, burning about 513 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
25 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burning120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning90 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2017Debris and open burning125 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2018Debris and open burning45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 February 2017Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Troy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Lewis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 2 storm reports in 1998: 2 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
March 1998Thunderstorm WindTroy$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTroy$3,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Dover (historical)1.2 miles7
Pulaski5.2 miles7
Shunem5.4 miles10
Chequest (historical)6.0 miles7
White Elm7.1 miles7
Waneta8.9 miles7
Wanetta Corner9.3 miles7
Steuben10.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 462339. 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.