Goose Lake, Iowa
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Deep Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52750. The Survey maps it on the Goose Lake quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGoose Lake fell from 240 to 239 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 | 240 | |
| 2020 | 239 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1892 USGS Goose Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Goose Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1899 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:125000
- 1899 USGS Cordova quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Goose Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Goose Lake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goose Lake Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Manikowski Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goose Lake in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Goose Lake | $40,000 | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | $1,500 | A trained spotter reported a roof on a dairy barn was destroyed. |This was reported along with hail up to the size of 1 inch in diameter. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Goose Lake | - | A trained spotter reported hail up to 1 inch in diameter combined with winds that destroyed a roof on a dairy barn. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Goose Lake | - | Pea to dime size hail. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Goose Lake | - | At approximately 800 pm June 5, an EF0 tornado briefly touched down about 2.75 miles north northeast of Goose Lake, IA. Wind speeds were estimated to be 75 mph. Several large limbs were snapped from trees. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | - | A 76 mph wind gust blew down some trees in Goose Lake, IA around 600 pm August 4. This report was relayed by a broadcast media partner. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | - | Winds estimated at 75 mph flattened several acres of corn and soybeans. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Goose Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Goose Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Goose Lake | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goose Lake | - | 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 Goose Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q923957 | 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 456975. 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.








