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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.

Paullina within O'Brien County

Population over time

2 figures

Paullina 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,056
2020982-74 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 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 burning1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in O'Brien County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bay/Strattmann/Paullina PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maudlin-PaullinaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
MertensSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meyer-Zorgd RagerSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paullina Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rabe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in O'Brien County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPaullina$150,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, with a large tree limb falling on a garage.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPaullina$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and pwer line damage.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Paullina$10,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPaullina-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 2003Thunderstorm WindPaullina-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 inch diameter limbs down. The winds also blew a power pole over.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPaullina-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
March 2007HailPaullina-no account filed
May 2005HailPaullina-no account filed
September 2005HailPaullina-no account filed
August 2005HailPaullina-no account filed
May 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
May 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
May 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
May 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
July 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
July 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
July 2004HailPaullina-no account filed
July 2003HailPaullina-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindPaullina-no account filed
August 2002HailPaullina-no account filed
April 2001HailPaullina-no account filed
June 2001HailPaullina-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindPaullina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in O'Brien 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
Mapleside3.8 miles7
Germantown5.2 miles9
Gaza6.4 miles7
Calumet7.7 miles9
Primghar8.1 miles7
Philby8.7 miles7
Archer9.9 miles7
Sutherland10.1 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 PaullinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926352The 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.