Wiscotta, Iowa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Redfield GAR Halllisted 2023 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1949 USGS Adel quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1951 USGS Adel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Wiscotta between 2006 and 2018, burning about 178 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Redfield
• Kennedy
• Linden
• Booneville
• Dexter

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Wiscotta: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Dallas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 463144. 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.