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Village Creek, Iowa

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52151. The Survey maps it on the Lansing quadrangle.

Village Creek within Allamakee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Village Creek between 2006 and 2018, burning about 98 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1903 DRY RIDGE DR. LANSING, IA 52151, IA
26 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesLEO GARIN, 1763 WHALEN HILL RD, LANSING, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Village Creek: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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
Prospects Near LansingLeadOccurrenceGalena
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Manning QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pedritti QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Village Creek in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 2 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
May 2006HailVillage Creek$750no account filed
June 2003HailVillage Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allamakee 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
Lyndale2.7 miles14
Thompson Corner3.0 miles18
Dalby3.7 miles14
Lansing3.8 miles18
Eldergrove4.9 miles19
Elon5.6 miles14
Church6.3 miles14
Waterville7.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464786. 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.