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Aredale, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bennezette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50605. The Survey maps it on the Hansell quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Aredale within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Aredale fell from 74 to 62 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
201074
202062-12 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Aredale: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Witte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aredale in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindAredale$150,000Significant roof damage to a containment building.
September 2018FloodAredale$100,000Emergency manager reported several road closures due to water over the roadways across the county with the worst area near Dumont.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAredale$80,000Two empty grain bins ripped from foundation and thrown 75 yards to the SE. Swath of area 4 miles south and several miles east of this point also had tree limb damage.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAredale$75,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAredale$15,000Emergency manager reported damage to farmstead outbuildings near the intersection of Clay Ave and 160th St near Dumont. Damage included an outbuilding being blown over. Time estimated from radar.
May 1996HailAredale$10,000no account filed
April 2009HailAredale$5,000Hail reportedly covered the ground completely.
June 2002HailAredale$3,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAredale$2,000Very strong wind kicking up debris. Potential wall cloud observed.
March 2011HailAredale$1,000The sheriff reported nickel to quarter size hail one mile south and one mile west of Aredale.
April 2009HailAredale$1,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAredale-Tree down on a power line. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023HailAredale-Public reported quarter sized hail via mPing app.
September 2020Heavy RainAredale-A personal weather station reported 2 inches of rain.
March 2019FloodAredale-Numerous secondary roads in rural Butler County closed due to flooding.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAredale-Emergency manager reported a nearly 2 mile wide path of shredded corn and beans from wind-driven hail. Path extended from near Aredale to Allison in Butler county. This is a delayed report from the Butler County EM. Time estimated from radar.
June 2017HailAredale-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2010FloodAredale-no account filed
April 2004HailAredale-no account filed
September 2001HailAredale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Dumont5.8 miles10
Bristow6.6 miles10
Pilot Rock9.2 miles9
Wilmar9.4 miles9
Greene11.6 miles9
Allison12.4 miles9
Kesley12.8 miles10
Packard14.5 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 AredaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1778820The 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 454224. 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.

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.