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Warba, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Warba City. It lies in ZIP code area 55793. The Survey maps it on the Warba quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Warba within Itasca County

Population over time

2 figures

Warba fell from 181 to 168 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
2010181
2020168-13 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Warba between 1993 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 were 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 1995Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Arson/incendiarism4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1999Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Warba: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Itasca County Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warba in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWarba-A report was received of a few 3 inch diameter tree limbs that had been broken.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWarba-A few 1 inch tree limbs were broken along with a few shingles being blown off a roof.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWarba-Trees were snapped with debris strewn along U. S. Highway 2.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWarba-Trees were blown down on to power lines.
June 2025HailWarba-no account filed
June 2025HailWarba-no account filed
March 2004HailWarba-no account filed
April 2002HailWarba-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindWarba-no account filed
June 2002HailWarba-no account filed
May 2001HailWarba-no account filed
August 2001HailWarba-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Warba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Marrier Estates0.3 miles9
Philbin4.5 miles9
Swan River4.8 miles8
Goodland7.3 miles8
Blackberry7.5 miles9
Wawina9.4 miles9
Gunn12.6 miles9
Silverwood13.2 miles10

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 WarbaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2017372The 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 658896. 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.