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Iona, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Iona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56141. The Survey maps it on the Slayton quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Iona within Murray County

Population over time

2 figures

Iona grew from 137 to 166 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
2010137
2020166+29 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Iona in 2004, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 April 2004Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iona in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2020Thunderstorm WindIona$5,000Eight trees were snapped off at the trunk, with several other uprooted. A 4-wheeler was blown a couple hundred feet off the driveway. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindIona-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindIona-Numerous trees were snapped by thunderstorm winds.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Iona-A tornado developed 4 miles west-northwest of Iona, approximately one-third of a mile west of 105th Avenue along 61st Street in an open field. The tornado tracked northeast for a little over a mile before it dissipated along 71st Street one-quarter mile east of 105th Avenue near the entrance to the Murray County landfill. From Sentinel satellite imagery and a ground survey, the average path width was determined to be 30 yards as it passed through corn fields.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIona-At least one wooden power pole was sheared off near the ground along MN State Highway 267.
August 2019Tornado (EF0)Iona-The tornado touched down a half mile south of Iona near the intersection of 140th Avenue and 41st Street, flattening a path across a corn field. The tornado traveled northeast, and crossed 46th Street just east of Iona. Near the end of its path, the tornado snapped three trees and topped several headstones in a cemetery. The average path width was 40 yards.
June 1994HailIona-Approximately 28,000 acres of crops were destroyed by hail and high winds across Murray County
August 2020HailIona-no account filed
July 2017HailIona-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindIona-no account filed
September 2005HailIona-no account filed
May 2004HailIona-no account filed
May 2004HailIona-no account filed
April 2001HailIona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Wirock4.7 miles7
Slayton5.2 miles7
Hadley7.0 miles11
Avoca7.7 miles7
Chandler8.7 miles7
Fulda10.2 miles7
Lake Wilson10.5 miles7
Lowville11.3 miles11

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 IonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230576The 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 645439. 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.