BlockWilliamson, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Colony Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50859. The Survey maps it on the Nevinville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Nevinville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Creston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Williamson between 2014 and 2020, burning about 74 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 | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 December 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 October 2020 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamson in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 6 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Williamson | $200,000 | This segment is for Adams county. This very visible tornado meandered across Adair and Adams counties for over half an hour, traveling only 8.5 miles in that time. The worst damage occurred near the small hamlet of Williamson where multiple buildings were damaged. The tornado initially traveled to the SW-SE, but executed a cyclonic loop two miles south of Williamson and then traveled to the N-NE for the remainder of its life. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Williamson | $10,000 | Emergency Manager reported several secondary roads were flash flooded in northeast Adams County. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Williamson | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Williamson | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Williamson | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Williamson | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Williamson | - | Hail report of 1.75 inches north of Prescott, Iowa via Spotter Network. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Williamson | - | Report forwarded by WOI television. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Williamson | - | From KCCI TV viewer. Small creek near their farm was well over its banks. This creek feeds the Nodaway River. Rainfall was 5.8 inches. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Williamson | - | Rainfall of 7.5 inches and still raining lightly. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevinville | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Carl | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Prescott | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Etna | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Stringtown | 11.4 miles | 8 | |
| Icarid (historical) | 12.1 miles | 8 | |
| Queen City (historical) | 12.2 miles | 9 | |
| Quincy | 13.9 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q33517373 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464805. 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.
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.