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New Virginia, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Virginia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50210. The Survey maps it on the New Virginia quadrangle. 498 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

New Virginia within Warren County

Population over time

2 figures

New Virginia grew from 489 to 498 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
2010489
2020498+9 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of New Virginia between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,026 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
11 August 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 New Virginia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

60 of 77 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Virginia in 77 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 37 hail, 20 heavy rain, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 1999Tornado (F2)New Virginia$75,000very intermittent track in rural areas
July 2008HailNew Virginia$75,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$75,000no account filed
July 2008FloodNew Virginia$50,000Streams were out of their banks. Basements were flooding with water coming up through drains.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$50,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$40,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$30,000no account filed
May 2013HailNew Virginia$25,000no account filed
July 2008HailNew Virginia$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailNew Virginia$25,000no account filed
September 2002HailNew Virginia$20,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodNew Virginia$10,000Flash flooding was reported with 5 feet of water over the entrance and exit ramps at mile post 47.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$10,000no account filed
April 2012HailNew Virginia$5,000Measured 1.2 inch diameter after a few minutes of melting.
April 1993HailNew Virginia$5,000A warm front was moving northward into Iowa. Thunderstorms fired up ahead of the front. Many of the storms produced gusty winds and small hail. Hail reportedly covered the ground in several places. Creston was one example, where they reported pea-size hail covering the ground. A few of the storms produced dime-size hail. Red Oak and New Virginia both reported 0.75-inch diameter hail.
April 2012HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
June 2005HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
July 2004HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
July 2001HailNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$5,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$3,000A few shingles were removed from a new roof. There was large tree limb damage in town and power lines down east of town. A metal panel was blown off a shed.
April 2010HailNew Virginia$3,000no account filed
June 2002HailNew Virginia$3,000no account filed
July 2001HailNew Virginia$3,000no account filed
April 1999HailNew Virginia$3,000no account filed
July 2008HailNew Virginia$2,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$2,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$2,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$2,000no account filed
June 1999HailNew Virginia$2,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Virginia$1,000no account filed
June 2004HailNew Virginia$1,000no account filed
September 2001HailNew Virginia$1,000no account filed
April 1999Tornado (F0)New Virginia$1,000no account filed
June 1995HailNew Virginia$1,000no account filed
March 1996LightningNew Virginia$500no account filed
April 2024HailNew Virginia-Report via mping.
October 2024HailNew Virginia-Report via social media.
September 2023HailNew Virginia-Pea to nickel size hail located one mile west of New Virginia.
June 2021Heavy RainNew Virginia-Trained spotter reported 2.46 inches of rain in 24 hours.
July 2021Heavy RainNew Virginia-A 24 hour rain total of 2.40 inches.
May 2020HailNew Virginia-Trained Spotter report of golf ball sized hail.
May 2020HailNew Virginia-Trained spotter report of 1.25 inch hail.
May 2020HailNew Virginia-Media relayed image of baseball sized hail. Delayed report via social media. Time estimate via radar.
May 2020HailNew Virginia-Emergency management relayed report of 3 inch hail.
May 2020Heavy RainNew Virginia-Trained spotter reported 2.1 inches of rain fell in approximately 45 minutes.
May 2020Heavy RainNew Virginia-Trained spotter report of 2.7 inches of rain.
July 2020Heavy RainNew Virginia-A trained spotter reported a 24 hour rain total of 4.8 inches, with most occurring between 930-1130 pm on July 14th. Still raining at time of observation.
July 2020Heavy RainNew Virginia-A trained spotter reported a 24 hour storm total of 5 inches of rain as of 10 am.
August 2019Heavy RainNew Virginia-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches. Beginning and ending times estimated from radar.
August 2019Heavy RainNew Virginia-Trained spotter reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2 inches. Beginning and end times estimated from radar.
September 2018Heavy RainNew Virginia-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches over the last 24 hours.
October 2018Heavy RainNew Virginia-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3 inches. Beginning and ending times estimated from radar.
April 2017HailNew Virginia-Trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)New Virginia-A brief tornado developed east of New Virginia and moved through a rural field before lifting.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
South River Crossing (historical)2.6 miles10
Medora6.7 miles11
Cool8.5 miles11
Saint Marys8.7 miles11
West Saint Marys8.7 miles11
Lawrenceburg10.0 miles11
Wick11.2 miles11
Conger11.8 miles9

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 New VirginiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927658The 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 459495. 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.

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.