ItascaWeb.com Guide to Warba, Minnesota

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.

Population:

Geographic Area	2000 Total Population	1990	1980	Population Change 1990-2000	Percent Non-white
City of Warba	183	137	150	33.6%	1.6%

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

Government:

City Hall		(218) 492-4567
Mayor	Kelly McCauley	(218) 492-4201
Treasurer	Lois Holmes	(218) 492-4446
Council Member	Becky McCauley	(218) 492-4330
Council Member	Ellen Coffel	(218) 492-4368
Council Member	Douglas Mericle	(218) 492-4153

Recreation:

Warba-Feeley Recreation Park

Map:

Schools:

Churches:

Bethel Lutheran Church	310 West Highway 2 PO Box 2825 Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4456

St. Paul Catholic Church Sunday Mass: 11am	Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4133

Businesses:

Casper's Leather Repair	122 Bridge Street PO Box 2828 Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-1903
We have been providing a variety of quality leather apparel and products for over 20 years. Our goal is to offer variety and alternatives to you. We carry a large variety of coats, vests, shorts, skirts, pants, headwear, patches, jewelry, and numerous other items. All our products are made of 100% quality Wisconsin cowhide and we stand behind our work 100%!
Jensco Jensen Sign Co.	17938 Legion Road Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4000
Marrier Estates	401 Lake Street PO Box 2854 Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4329

Nordquist Amber & Christ	201 Bridge Street West Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4291
Pheasants Plus	Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4450
Quality Construction Systems	Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4336
Sal's Campground	21420 US Highway 2 Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4297
Shallow Lake Store	Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4568
Warba-Goodland Food Shelf	PO Box 2761 Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4392
Warba Liquor Store	Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4499

Warba Motel	210 Bridge Street Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-1600

Warba School Antique Mall	Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-1761

Warba Tire	204 Bridge Street Warba, MN 55793	(218) 492-4111

Other Web Links:

Plat Map of the Warba area - see who owns Warba area property
Note: Plat Map is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format

Warba.net - Local Warba information, including City Council minutes.

Aerial Map: [click photo to enlarge, zoom in or zoom out]

Aerial photo is courtesy of Microsoft's Terra Server and the US Geological Survey

Topographical Map: [click photo to enlarge, zoom in or zoom out]

Topographic photo is courtesy of Microsoft's Terra Server and the US Geological Survey

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