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Twin View Heights, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Big Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52333. It stands on West Hoosier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ely quadrangle.

Twin View Heights within Johnson County

On record in Twin View Heights

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

9 surveys from 16 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

56 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Twin View Heights between 2006 and 2020, burning about 182 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Twin View Heights: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Old State QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Stahle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vanourney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
W.J. Turecek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Meyer QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schultz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin View Heights in 1 storm report in 2023: 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 2023Thunderstorm WindTwin View Heights-Several trees down at Sandy Beach Campground.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Curtis (historical)4.1 miles14
Solon4.2 miles12
North Liberty4.4 miles19
Shueyville4.8 miles14
Cou Falls5.3 miles14
Green Castle (historical)5.5 miles14
Swisher6.8 miles14
Newport7.2 miles14

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 Q122561674The 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 462405. 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.