Dunkerton, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50626. The Survey maps it on the Dunkerton quadrangle. 842 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
On record in Dunkerton
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
Dunkerton Bridgelisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresDunkerton fell from 852 to 842 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 | 852 | |
| 2020 | 842 | -10 (-1%) |
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
- 1971 USGS Dunkerton quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dunkerton between 2001 and 2009, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 June 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 April 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 December 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Dunkerton: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
24 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunkerton in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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 1999 | Flash Flood | Dunkerton | $1,200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Dunkerton | $350,000 | Farm and several outbuildings destroyed |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Dunkerton | $300,000 | Two houses destroyed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Dunkerton | $100,000 | A bridge was washed out in the 7700 block of East Big Rock Road near Dunkerton. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $50,000 | Trees and power lines down in town. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Dunkerton | $50,000 | Roads were washed out in the 3400 block of North Pilot Grove near Dunkerton. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Dunkerton | $25,000 | Crane Creek was flooding portions of Dunkerton. Evacuations were taking place along Main and Sycamore Street. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dunkerton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $15,000 | Public reported several large trees down. Report via social media. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $10,000 | Public shared a picture of a 10 inch tree limb down on the ground, which also took down a power line. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $10,000 | A power pole was blown down by high winds. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $5,000 | Tree branches with the diameter of 2-liter pop bottles were blown down. Received from KWWL TV. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $5,000 | A power pole and transformer were downed. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Dunkerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Dunkerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Dunkerton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Dunkerton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Dunkerton | $1,000 | Strong winds also damaged a new swing set. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Dunkerton | - | KWWL relayed a public report via social media of golfball sized hail. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Dunkerton | - | Rainfall total since 0500 CST was 2.68 inches. |
| April 2009 | Heavy Rain | Dunkerton | - | Weekend total. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Dunkerton | - | Brief touchdown in open area east of town. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Dunkerton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canfield (historical) | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Dewar | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Edwards (historical) | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Crain Creek (historical) | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Armour | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Big Rock (historical) | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Raymond | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hilltop | 8.7 miles | 11 |
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 Dunkerton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932636 | 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 456065. 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.
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.



