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West Amana, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52203. The Survey maps it on the Middle Amana quadrangle.

West Amana within Iowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

22 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of West Amana between 2007 and 2020, burning about 203 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9

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
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Amana: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Limestone, General. 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
Amana Sandstone QuarriesFlagstonePast Producer
Marengo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meekins QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Amana in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 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 2019HailWest Amana-no account filed
May 2013HailWest Amana-no account filed
June 1998HailWest Amana-no account filed
May 1997HailWest Amana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
High Amana1.4 miles13
South Amana2.2 miles13
Upper South Amana2.9 miles13
Middle Amana3.5 miles13
Amana5.0 miles14
Marengo5.7 miles8
Conroy5.7 miles12
East Amana6.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 462803. 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.