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Albert City, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50510. The Survey maps it on the Albert City quadrangle. 677 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Albert City within Buena Vista County

On record in Albert City

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

Albert City fell from 699 to 677 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
2010699
2020677-22 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Albert City between 2009 and 2011, burning about 4 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
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources4716 220TH AVE., SEC 33 POLAND TWP, IA
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSEC 12 POLAND TWP, IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buena Vista County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albert City in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
May 1997Thunderstorm WindAlbert City$5,000no account filed
May 2023Flash FloodAlbert City-Multiple rural roads south of Albert City were inundated by water.
May 2023Flash FloodAlbert City-Water encroached into several basements around Albert City.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-A few large limbs from 1 to 3 inches in diameter were broken in a tree line.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Albert City-A tornado briefly spun up and traveled across farmland to the southeast, located between 560th and 570th Streets, and 240th and 100th Avenues. The tornado path was observed on Sentinel satellite imagery. The average path width was 20 yards.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2003HailAlbert City-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and windows.
July 2023HailAlbert City-no account filed
July 2023HailAlbert City-no account filed
March 2007HailAlbert City-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-no account filed
September 2005HailAlbert City-no account filed
May 2004HailAlbert City-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Albert City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buena Vista 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
Marathon5.8 miles8
Leverett8.7 miles8
Rembrandt11.9 miles9
Newell12.5 miles9
Truesdale12.9 miles9
Sioux Rapids13.2 miles9
Sulphur Springs13.6 miles9
Lakeside16.3 miles9

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 Albert CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1922611The 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 454113. 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.