Dysart, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52224. The Survey maps it on the Dysart quadrangle. 1,281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDysart fell from 1,379 to 1,281 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 | 1,379 | |
| 2020 | 1,281 | -98 (-7%) |
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 Dysart quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dysart in 2010, burning about 5 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1158 60TH ST., IOWA |
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dysart in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Flood | Dysart | $400,000 | The public works director for La Porte City, IA reported over 75 homes impacted from the flooding with some homes reporting flooding impacts that extended to include both basements and part of the main level of the home. Flooding continued to block roads in town in areas that hadn't seen flood impacts since widespread flooding from the floods of 2008. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $350,000 | Numerous trees down, windows broken out and rescue crews called out. |
| April 2003 | Lightning | Dysart | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $30,000 | Tree limbs down and power out. A swing set was wrapped around a tree. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Dysart | $25,000 | Tornado developed near the southwest corner of Dysart and moved east southeast. The tornado had a very broad circulation with smaller vorticies embedded within the larger circulation. The tornado produced mostly EF0 damage with some EF1 damage to houses on the far southwest side of town. The remainder of the path was in agricultural fields to the south of town. The tornado then moved from Tama county into Benton county. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Flood | Dysart | $10,000 | Water was reported over Highway 8 on the east edge of Traer. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $5,000 | Public reported tree and roof damage, including shingles blown off. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dysart | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dysart | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Dysart | - | Hail ranged from pea to ping pong ball sized. Report relayed by kwwl tv. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | - | Report of 50 mph winds with 63 mph gusts 5 mile north of Dysart. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Dysart | - | Report relayed from EMA of 1-inch hail at Hickory Hills Park. Time of occurrence estimated by radar. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Dysart | - | Spotter submitted a photo of quarter-sized hail 5 miles north of Dysart. Report received was delayed. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Dysart | - | Trained spotter reported penny sized hail with 50 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Dysart | - | Mesonet station reported a 24 hour rain total of 3.43 inches. Still raining at time of report. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Dysart | - | WOI-TV relayed a report of half dollar sized hail. Delayed report. Time estimated via radar. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | - | Trained spotter reported tree branches snapped off and estimated winds around 60 mph. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Dysart | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.59 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Dysart | - | CoCoRaHS report of 1.28 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Dysart | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported 2.09 inches of heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dysart | - | Winds gust estimated at 60 MPH. Emergency manager reported tree damage on several farmsteads in this general area as well. |
| August 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Dysart | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Dysart | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooreville (historical) | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| West Union (historical) | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Clutier | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| Traer | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Buckingham (historical) | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Buckingham | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Elberon | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Vining | 13.1 miles | 8 |
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 Dysart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933307 | 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 456087. 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.



