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Van Cleve, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50162. The Survey maps it on the Melbourne quadrangle.

Van Cleve within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Van Cleve between 2006 and 2018, burning about 90 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
27 August 2013Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2919 LAFAYETTE AVE, MELBOURNE, IA
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2081 265TH ST., MELBOURNE, IA
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2534 STARRY GROVE ROAD, MARSHALLTOWN, IA 50158, IO
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van Cleve in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2018Heavy RainVan Cleve-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.80 inches.
May 2014HailVan Cleve-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Van0.6 miles8
State Center Junction1.7 miles8
Haverhill3.2 miles8
Luray4.2 miles8
Melbourne4.5 miles8
Malta5.7 miles8
Laurel6.1 miles8
LaMoille6.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 462530. 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.

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.