Woodland Hills, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Four Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50237. The Survey maps it on the Rising Sun quadrangle.

Woodland Hills within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1930 USGS Mitchellville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Rising Sun quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Hills in 2014, burning about 30 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

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
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Woodland Hills: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Clay. 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
Carlisle Brick and Tile Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Occurrence	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Avon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Carlisle Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fritz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Owens Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pickle Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Robinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
White Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Hastie	1.6 miles	11
Adelphi	2.3 miles	11
Rising Sun	2.9 miles	11
Carbondale	3.0 miles	16
Avon Lake	3.0 miles	16
Levey	3.2 miles	16
Avon	3.7 miles	16
Pleasant Hill	3.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 463187. 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.