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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.

Dunkerton within Black Hawk County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dunkerton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010852
2020842-10 (-1%)

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.

Fires near this place

17 since 2001

Regional 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 ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 April 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 December 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

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 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this place

24 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Flash FloodDunkerton$1,200,000no account filed
May 2000Tornado (F2)Dunkerton$350,000Farm and several outbuildings destroyed
May 2000Tornado (F2)Dunkerton$300,000Two houses destroyed
August 2007Flash FloodDunkerton$100,000A bridge was washed out in the 7700 block of East Big Rock Road near Dunkerton.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$50,000Trees and power lines down in town.
August 2007Flash FloodDunkerton$50,000Roads were washed out in the 3400 block of North Pilot Grove near Dunkerton.
April 2008FloodDunkerton$25,000Crane Creek was flooding portions of Dunkerton. Evacuations were taking place along Main and Sycamore Street.
July 2003HailDunkerton$25,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$15,000Public reported several large trees down. Report via social media.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$10,000Public shared a picture of a 10 inch tree limb down on the ground, which also took down a power line.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$10,000A power pole was blown down by high winds.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$5,000Tree branches with the diameter of 2-liter pop bottles were blown down. Received from KWWL TV.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$5,000A power pole and transformer were downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDunkerton$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailDunkerton$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailDunkerton$5,000no account filed
May 2003HailDunkerton$3,000no account filed
May 1999HailDunkerton$3,000no account filed
May 2012HailDunkerton$1,000Strong winds also damaged a new swing set.
September 2020HailDunkerton-KWWL relayed a public report via social media of golfball sized hail.
July 2010Heavy RainDunkerton-Rainfall total since 0500 CST was 2.68 inches.
April 2009Heavy RainDunkerton-Weekend total.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Dunkerton-Brief touchdown in open area east of town.
May 2003HailDunkerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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
Canfield (historical)4.1 miles9
Dewar4.4 miles9
Edwards (historical)5.2 miles10
Crain Creek (historical)5.4 miles10
Armour6.4 miles10
Big Rock (historical)7.4 miles10
Raymond7.6 miles9
Hilltop8.7 miles11

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 DunkertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932636The 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.