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| Location: The
City of Warba is located fourteen miles east of Grand Rapids on Highway
2. Warba is a pleasant community offering essential services such as a City
maintained water and sewer system, a well-organized volunteer fire department,
and a new community center building. Warba supports a variety of commercial
businesses including an eight-room motel, gas and service station, post
office, Laundromat, and a sporting clay and hunting preserve range. Sportmax
Inc., which provides many area employment opportunities, is an excellent
example of a manufacturing firm that has found success in Warba.
Warba offers residents an opportunity to enjoy the unique quality of life associated with rural northern Minnesota. There are numerous lakes within a three-mile radius of Warba, plus swimming beaches, an outdoor hockey rink, and outstanding hunting and fishing. |
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History: Warba, a city in Feeley Township, was incorporated as a village in 1911. A logging site named Siding No. 8, also known as Dickson's Spur for a timber man named Dickson, existed 1891-98 and changed its name to Verna. Verna was located side by side with the village of Feeley (also known as Feeley's Spur), named for the sawmill owner Thomas J. Feeley (died in Duluth May 24, 1935), which was platted in 1904. The Feeley post office operated 1901-10, at which time the U.S. Post Office Department thought Feeley was too close to Foley, and a contest to rename the village was held; A. A. Hall won, selecting the Indian word warbasibi, which has been variously interpreted as "resting place" or "white swan," the latter being Wabiziwa or Waiba, converted to Warba; the Great Northern Railway changed the depot name from Verna to Warba, thus both Verna and Feeley became Warba. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society |
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Other Web Links: Plat Map of the
Warba area - see who owns Warba area property Warba.net - Local Warba information, including City Council minutes.
Aerial Map: [click photo to enlarge, zoom in or zoom out]
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