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Volga, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sperry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52077. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Volga quadrangle. 203 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Volga within Clayton County

On record in Volga

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Volga fell from 208 to 203 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
2010208
2020203-5 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Volga between 2006 and 2009, burning about 6 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/undetermined3

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
1 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Volga: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc. 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
Volga OccurrencePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, ZincPast ProducerFluorite, Sphalerite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wadena PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meisgier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Volga in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain. 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
July 2009HailVolga$111,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindVolga$15,000no account filed
July 2009HailVolga$8,000Hail was reported to have covered the ground.
July 2009HailVolga$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVolga$3,000An estimated wind gust of 80 mph blew down trees and power lines in Volga.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindVolga$2,000Trained spotters reported trees down and strong wind gusts west of town.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindVolga$1,000Large tree branches were blown down in Volga.
September 2018Heavy RainVolga-The COOP observer near Volga measured 4.6 inches of rain.
July 2017HailVolga-Quarter sized hail was reported in Volga.
July 2017Heavy RainVolga-Near Volga, 5.15 inches of rain fell.
July 2011Heavy RainVolga-The COOP observer in Volga reported a total of 4.99 inches of rain at 6 a.m.
May 2004HailVolga-no account filed
May 2003HailVolga-no account filed
July 2003HailVolga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Thomasville4.1 miles12
Saint Sebald4.6 miles12
Osborne5.1 miles12
Highland6.8 miles12
Mederville6.9 miles12
Elkader7.9 miles12
Strawberry Point8.4 miles12
Communia9.5 miles12

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 VolgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2240021The 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 462589. 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.