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Turin, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Belvidere Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51040. It stands on Maple River. The Survey maps it on the Castana quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Turin within Monona County

Population over time

2 figures

Turin grew from 68 to 72 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
201068
202072+4 (+6%)

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

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Turin between 2011 and 2020, burning about 924 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2

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 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2012Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2012Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Debris and open burning480 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Debris and open burning340 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources28863 CO. HWY L20, IA
16 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources25194 ORANGE AVE, IA
15 March 2015Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monona County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Turin: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
MorvilleSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monona County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turin in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. 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 2010FloodTurin$5,000Heavy rain during the morning of June 27th caused flooding of the Little Sioux River. The river near Turin crested at around 24.5 feet during the early morning hours of June 30. Flood stage is 20 feet. The river was above flood stage near Turin from the early evening of the 27th through July 2nd. A levee along the river protected significant flooding although some agricultural lowlands were flooded.
July 2010FloodTurin$2,000This flooding carried over from June when heavy rain during the morning of June 27th caused flooding of the Little Sioux River. The river near Turin crested at around 24.5 feet during the early morning hours of June 30. Flood stage is 20 feet. The river was above flood stage near Turin from the early evening of June 27th through July 2nd. A levee along the river protected significant flooding although some agricultural lowlands were flooded.
April 2023HailTurin-Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING.
June 2019HailTurin-The public reported 1 inch hail southeast of Turin.
May 2007FloodTurin-Heavy rainfall of 5 to 7 inches over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th, Onawa reported 6.32 inches from this event, caused the Little Sioux River to flood from May 6th through the 8th. The Little Sioux River near Turin reached a crest of just under 23 feet around 1115 am cdt on May 7th, flood stage is 20 feet. The river near Turin was above flood stage from 745 pm on the 6th until 9 pm on the 8th.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindTurin-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTurin-Wall blown off restaurant. Grain elevators damaged. Double wide mobile home destroyed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTurin-Metal/wood cafe destroyed. Metal grain bin destroyed. Trees downed.
August 2008HailTurin-no account filed
August 2001HailTurin-no account filed
August 2000HailTurin-no account filed
May 1999HailTurin-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTurin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monona 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
Castana4.9 miles9
Kennebec5.9 miles9
Onawa7.0 miles9
Blencoe8.6 miles8
Moorhead9.0 miles8
Ticonic10.1 miles8
Soldier10.2 miles8
Whiting12.2 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 TurinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2239935The 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 462360. 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.