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Woodland, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Woodland Township. The Survey maps it on the Woodland quadrangle.

Woodland within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Woodland between 2006 and 2015, burning about 385 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
4 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2021Funnel CloudWoodland-A small funnel cloud developed off and on with this storm.
April 2010HailWoodland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Brucewell4.1 miles7
High Point4.5 miles7
Morgan6.1 miles7
Leon8.5 miles7
Blockly (historical)8.7 miles10
Garden Grove9.1 miles7
Pleasanton11.1 miles7
Davis City12.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 463183. 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.