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.
Population over time
2 figuresTurin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 72 | +4 (+6%) |
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
- 1969 USGS Castana quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2011Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 480 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 340 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 28863 CO. HWY L20, IA |
| 16 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 25194 ORANGE AVE, IA |
| 15 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Flood | Turin | $5,000 | 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 the 27th through July 2nd. A levee along the river protected significant flooding although some agricultural lowlands were flooded. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Turin | $2,000 | This 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 2023 | Hail | Turin | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Turin | - | The public reported 1 inch hail southeast of Turin. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Turin | - | 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turin | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turin | - | Wall blown off restaurant. Grain elevators damaged. Double wide mobile home destroyed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turin | - | Metal/wood cafe destroyed. Metal grain bin destroyed. Trees downed. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Turin | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Turin | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Turin | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Turin | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turin | - | 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.
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 Turin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2239935 | 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 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.




