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Walnut City, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52574. The Survey maps it on the Mystic quadrangle.

Walnut City within Appanoose County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Walnut City between 2015 and 2018, burning about 148 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 burning3
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
30 March 2015Debris and open burning120 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 January 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Walnut City: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Zinc. 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
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Carter-Waters Corp. PlantClayProducer
Centerville QuarryClayProducer
Centerville No. 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clarkdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
L and W No. 5 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tait QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut City in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 2015Thunderstorm WindWalnut City$25,000State official reported a camper turned over at Rathbun Lake - Island View Park. Time was estimated via radar.

Every storm recorded in Appanoose 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
Mystic2.4 miles9
Clarkdale2.8 miles9
Rathbun3.1 miles9
Diamond (historical)3.6 miles9
Brazil3.8 miles9
Darbyville3.8 miles9
Garfield4.3 miles11
Forbush4.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464790. 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.