BlockBurchinal, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mount Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50469. The Survey maps it on the Burchinal quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBurchinal fell from 40 to 33 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 40 | |
| 2020 | 33 | -7 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Burchinal quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burchinal: 2 past producers. 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.
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burchinal in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burchinal | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burchinal | $1,000 | Public report of roof damage to a barn provided via social media. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burchinal | - | Personal weather station gusted to 62 mph. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Burchinal | - | Mping report of quarter sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Burchinal | - | Public report of quarter sized hail. Location estimated via radar. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burchinal | - | RWIS site RMCI4 south of Mason City reported a gust of 50 knots. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burchinal | - | Iowa DOT mesonet station along Interstate 35 recorded a 61 mph wind gust. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Burchinal | - | Public recorded heavy rainfall of 2.95 inches via a home weather station. |
| October 2024 | Hail | Burchinal | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burchinal | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Burchinal | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurley | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Emery | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Cameron | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Central Heights | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Registry Park | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Mason City Junction | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Swaledale | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Rockwell | 7.2 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Burchinal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4998217 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454988. 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.
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.
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.