York, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Honey Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52042. The Survey maps it on the Edgewood quadrangle.

York within Delaware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1902 USGS Elkader quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Edgewood quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 York between 2006 and 2015, burning about 44 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
9 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 January 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of York: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Edgewood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kuhlman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Thorpe Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Thorpe	4.7 miles	12
Forestville	5.2 miles	12
Dutchtown	5.9 miles	12
Greeley	6.3 miles	12
Dundee	6.7 miles	12
Oneida	7.9 miles	12
Manchester	10.4 miles	12
Almoral	10.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464158. 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.