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.
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 figuresAlbert 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 699 | |
| 2020 | 677 | -22 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Albert City quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 4716 220TH AVE., SEC 33 POLAND TWP, IA |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | SEC 12 POLAND TWP, IA |
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albert City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Albert City | - | Multiple rural roads south of Albert City were inundated by water. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Albert City | - | Water encroached into several basements around Albert City. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albert City | - | A few large limbs from 1 to 3 inches in diameter were broken in a tree line. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albert City | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines. The amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Albert City | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and windows. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Albert City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Albert City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marathon | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Leverett | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Rembrandt | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Newell | 12.5 miles | 9 | |
| Truesdale | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Sioux Rapids | 13.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sulphur Springs | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lakeside | 16.3 miles | 9 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1922611 | The 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.





