BlockVarina, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50593. The Survey maps it on the Varina quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVarina fell from 71 to 68 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 | 71 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -3 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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
- 1979 USGS Varina quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Varina in 2011, burning about 3 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 210TH & 600TH, IA |
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Varina in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 tornado, 4 heavy rain, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF4) | Varina | $2,500,000 | An intense EF4 satellite tornado on the west flank of a large wedge tornado passing through western Pocahontas county. This tornado approached from the northwest and completely destroyed a home leaving little debris at the site. Grove of mature hardwood trees near the home was decimated and debarked and a large combine in the machine shed was tossed and rolled several hundred feet. This tornado also absorbed the circulation of an EF2 satellite tornado. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Varina | $100,000 | A short but relatively intense tornado. This was a satellite tornado to a large wedge tornado that moved through western Pocahontas County. This tornado became absorbed into the circulation of another powerful satellite tornado that moved in from the west. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Varina | $10,000 | This was a cyclonic tornado of a pair of tornadoes that travelled on the east side of a large wedge tornado that moved through Pocahontas County. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Varina | $10,000 | This was the anticyclonic tornado of a pair of tornadoes that moved on the east side of a large wedge tornado passing through western Pocahontas County. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Varina | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Varina | $3,000 | Several six inch limbs were blown down across the yard. Pea size hail also observed. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Varina | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Varina | - | Two different spotters sent in pictures of this tornado. It was a brief tornado just southwest of Varina near the county line. This tornado remained in rural areas and did not impact any damage indicators, hence the EFU rating. |
| May 2023 | Heavy Rain | Varina | - | Storm total of 4.95 inches. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Varina | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Varina | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.71 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Varina | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.20 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| May 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Varina | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Varina | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Varina | - | 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 Varina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2782967 | 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 462545. 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.
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.