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Coin, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 51636. The Survey maps it on the Coin quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Coin within Page County

Population over time

2 figures

Coin fell from 193 to 176 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.

YearPeople Change
2010193
2020176-17 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Coin in 2020, 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Page County

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coin in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 6 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026Tornado (EF0)Coin-Two spotter reports confirmed a funnel with rotating dust at ground level with minor tree damage at one location. The track was mainly over open fields. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 70 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCoin-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph and at least one inch hail caused extensive damage in a swath from Shambaugh through College Springs, Coin and into the Braddyville area. Numerous north or east facing windows and siding across these areas were broken out or damaged, power lines and trees were downed and crop damage was extensive. More than 80 power poles were snapped from Highway 2 to south of Coin, and the downed poles and lines essentially closed off the south or east routes in or out of town. Some residents claimed it was the worst storm that they had ever witnessed.
August 2011HailCoin-Hail at least 1 inch in diameter was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph. The wind driven hail caused extensive damage in a swath from Shambaugh through College Springs and into the Braddyville area. Numerous north or east facing windows and siding were broken out or damaged, power lines and trees were downed and crop damage was extensive. More than 80 power poles were snapped from Highway 2 to south of Coin. Some residents claimed it was the worst storm they had ever witnessed.
August 2010HailCoin-The hail was accompanied by torrential rain and wind gusts of 40 to 45 mph.
August 2004Tornado (F2)Coin-This tornado first touched down around 2 miles east of Coin and tracked 7 miles before lifting just northwest of Shambaugh. The tornado reached it's maximum intensity of f2 north of College Springs where a farmstead sustained serious damage. The roof of a house at this farmstead was removed and siding was damaged, a hay barn was flattened, grain bins were crushed and the roof of a silo and other nearby outbuildings were destroyed. Other farmsteads received damage to outbuildings and the crop and tree damage path at times widened to 3/4 of a mile.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Coin-A small weak tornado caused some tree and crop damage west of Coin for about 2 miles before lifting.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCoin-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph broke large tree limbs near Coin. The winds were accompanied by 3/4 inch hail.
May 2004HailCoin-no account filed
July 2002HailCoin-no account filed
June 2002HailCoin-no account filed
September 2001HailCoin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Page 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Willsburg (historical)4.0 miles10
Northboro4.6 miles10
Blanchard5.2 miles12
Tarkio City (historical)5.7 miles12
Norwich6.2 miles10
College Springs6.3 miles12
Bingham6.3 miles10
Page Center6.7 miles12

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 CoinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q586712The 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 455516. 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.

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.