Ward, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Guilford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52531. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hiteman quadrangle.

Ward within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1929 USGS Albia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Hiteman quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ward between 2006 and 2014, burning about 10 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1

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
5 April 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Tower Station (historical)	0.7 miles	10
Hiteman	2.1 miles	10
Hagerty	3.6 miles	10
Georgetown	3.8 miles	10
Albia	4.3 miles	10
Hocking	4.4 miles	9
Tyrone	4.8 miles	9
Rexfield	5.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464792. 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.