Paullina, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51046. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Paullina quadrangle. 982 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPaullina fell from 1,056 to 982 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 | 1,056 | |
| 2020 | 982 | -74 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Paullina quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Storm Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Paullina in 2020, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 October 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Paullina: 21 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay/Strattmann/Paullina Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Maudlin-Paullina | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mertens | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Meyer-Zorgd Rager | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Paullina Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rabe Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paullina in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | $150,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, with a large tree limb falling on a garage. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and pwer line damage. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Paullina | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a 50 foot by 80 foot storage building. The winds also caused tree damage, including at least one large tree blown down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 inch diameter limbs down. The winds also blew a power pole over. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Paullina | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paullina | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mapleside | 3.8 miles | 7 | |
| Germantown | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Gaza | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Calumet | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Primghar | 8.1 miles | 7 | |
| Philby | 8.7 miles | 7 | |
| Archer | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Sutherland | 10.1 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 Paullina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926352 | 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 460045. 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.




