Yampa, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52533. The Survey maps it on the Abingdon quadrangle.

Yampa 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
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Abingdon quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Yampa between 2010 and 2019, burning about 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1232 85TH ST., IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bladensburg	2.6 miles	7
Ashland	3.6 miles	7
Agency	4.5 miles	10
Cliffland	6.2 miles	10
Eldon	6.3 miles	7
Loch Burns	6.8 miles	9
Competine	7.6 miles	7
Farson	7.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464301. 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.