Willard, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52536. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe quadrangle.

Willard within Wapello County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Willard between 2018 and 2020, burning about 90 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	2
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
26 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 March 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 January 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wapello 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 Willard: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Wapello 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
Munterville	2.6 miles	7
Bidwell	2.8 miles	7
Blakesburg	3.8 miles	8
Dudley	5.6 miles	7
Chillicothe	6.3 miles	7
Ottumwa Junction	8.5 miles	9
Keb (historical)	8.8 miles	9
Ormanville	8.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464307. 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.