Iona City, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64486. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Iona City within Worth 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.

1940 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Iona City (historical) between 1992 and 2013, burning about 105 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

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
23 March 2013	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 March 2002	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 February 2002	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 January 1992	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Iona City (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worth 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
Isadora	3.3 miles	12
Sheridan	5.2 miles	12
Irena	8.0 miles	13
Grant City	8.9 miles	12
Oxford	10.3 miles	11
Mount Waller	11.1 miles	12
Prohibition City	12.4 miles	12
Worth	12.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2710539. 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.