Waneta, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Roscoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52584. The Survey maps it on the Pulaski quadrangle.

Waneta within Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Waneta between 2006 and 2017, burning about 200 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 burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2017	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 February 2017	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wanetta Corner	0.4 miles	7
Stiles	4.3 miles	7
Pulaski	4.6 miles	7
Dover (historical)	7.7 miles	7
Troy	8.9 miles	7
Lunsford	9.0 miles	7
Steuben	9.0 miles	8
Savannah	9.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464338. 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.