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.
Population over time
2 figuresAredale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 62 | -12 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Hansell quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Iowa Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Witte Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | $150,000 | Significant roof damage to a containment building. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Aredale | $100,000 | Emergency manager reported several road closures due to water over the roadways across the county with the worst area near Dumont. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | $80,000 | Two 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | $15,000 | Emergency 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 1996 | Hail | Aredale | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Aredale | $5,000 | Hail reportedly covered the ground completely. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Aredale | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | $2,000 | Very strong wind kicking up debris. Potential wall cloud observed. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Aredale | $1,000 | The sheriff reported nickel to quarter size hail one mile south and one mile west of Aredale. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Aredale | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | - | Tree down on a power line. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Aredale | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via mPing app. |
| September 2020 | Heavy Rain | Aredale | - | A personal weather station reported 2 inches of rain. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Aredale | - | Numerous secondary roads in rural Butler County closed due to flooding. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aredale | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Aredale | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Aredale | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Aredale | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Aredale | - | 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.
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 Aredale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1778820 | 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 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.



