Humboldt, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Humboldt City. It lies in ZIP code area 50548. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt quadrangle. 4,792 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
On record in Humboldt
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 3 records
Berkhimer Bridgelisted 1998
Humboldt Free Public Librarylisted 1983
Stephen Harris Taft Houselisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresHumboldt grew from 4,690 to 4,792 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 | 4,690 | |
| 2020 | 4,792 | +102 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1923 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hodges Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Humboldt Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rutland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Frank Gotch State Park | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Humboldt Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Humboldt Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humboldt in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Hail | Humboldt | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Flood | Humboldt | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Humboldt | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Humboldt | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Flood | Humboldt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Humboldt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Humboldt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Humboldt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Humboldt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Humboldt | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Humboldt | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Humboldt | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Humboldt | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Humboldt | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Humboldt | - | Tornado touched down in open fields north of Humboldt and caused little damage. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Humboldt | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota City | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Jones Siding | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Rutland | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Arnold | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Unique | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Thor | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Livermore | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Pioneer City | 10.5 miles | 9 |
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 Humboldt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q264605 | 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 457717. 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.





