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Troy Mills, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Spring Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52218. The Survey maps it on the Troy Mills quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Troy Mills within Linn County

On record in Troy Mills

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

7 surveys from 10 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

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Troy Mills between 2011 and 2013, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 burning1
Natural1
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
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesYORK AVE AND 310TH ST., IA
29 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2013Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Troy Mills: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Troy Mills Quarry and Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cook QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mulneaux QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy Mills in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTroy Mills$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew down some outbuildings in Troy Mills, IA around 800 am June 19.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindTroy Mills$5,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTroy Mills-Social media post by local media, of a damaged outbuilding and corn crib.
June 2016Funnel CloudTroy Mills-Law enforcement relayed numerous reports of a brief funnel cloud between the city of Troy Mills and Walker. The time and location is approximate.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindTroy Mills-Winds estimated to be 65 mph blew down several tree limbs 6-8 inches in diameter. In the area, numerous trees were toppled completely.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindTroy Mills-Winds were estimated to be 65 mph near Troy Mills, IA.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTroy Mills-65 mph wind gust reported.
June 2017HailTroy Mills-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
Walker5.2 miles11
Alice6.4 miles15
Paris6.5 miles15
Coggon8.1 miles10
Rogers8.5 miles15
Center Point8.7 miles14
Lafayette9.9 miles15
Central City10.3 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 Troy MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7846902The 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 462343. 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.