Oakland, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Belknap Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51560. It stands on Slocum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakland quadrangle. 1,524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOakland fell from 1,527 to 1,524 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 | 1,527 | |
| 2020 | 1,524 | -3 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oakland in 2007, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oakland: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
49 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 49 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 28 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Hail | Oakland | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and a machine shed east of Oakland. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oakland | - | Emergency management report of hail measured up to 1 inch in diameter near Oakland, IA. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | A 58 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Oakland | - | Public reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Oakland | - | Public reported 1.25 inch hail. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Oakland | - | Trained spotter reported 1.75 inch hail in downtown Oakland, IA. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Public reported multiple 7 inch tree branches down. Also noted dime sized hail. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Oakland | - | Ping Pong ball size hail was reported south southeast of Oakland. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Oakland | - | Golf ball hail was reported 2 3/4 miles south of Oakland. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Large (14 inch) tree limb blown down 3 mile east of Oakland. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | A very large tree limb (14 inches in diameter) was broken off in damaging winds 3 miles east of Oakland. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Trees were blown down across a road from damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | The bowing thunderstorm segment that began in the Omaha brought winds estimated at 60 mph to the Oakland area. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph downed some tree limbs in the Oakland area. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Oakland | - | Mostly pea to dime-size but a few nickel-size hailstones fell for several minutes in the Oakland area. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Oakland | - | The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain which totaled around 4 inches in about 90 minutes. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed a few tree limbs in town. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Oakland | - | Numerous spotters reported seeing funnel clouds, generally northwest of Oakland. Although there was some reports of one of them touching down, no damage was observed or reported and the showers that they formed on produced no lightning. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed a few trees across Highway 6 near Oakland. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oakland | - | Cherry size hail or dimes to a little larger was reported near Oakland. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Oakland | - | Flash flooding was reported across a road a mile west of Oakland. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Oakland | - | Hail up to nickel size was reported near Oakland. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | The thunderstorm winds were also accompanied by dime size hail. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Oakland | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Oakland | - | This tornado damaged trees and destroyed barns and sheds in its path. Some power poles were also downed. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph blew down a few trees in town. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed large tree limbs which caused damage to transformers knocking power out across the southwest part of town. Other damage that was observed included a porch blown off of a house. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by small hail. The hail and strong winds caused a swath of damage to corn fields from 1 to 4 miles east of Oakland. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Oakland | - | Reported by the public. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph uprooted a tree in Oakland. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Oakland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iola (historical) | 1.9 miles | 9 | |
| Carson | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hancock | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Taylor | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Macedonia | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| York Center | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Newtown (historical) | 10.5 miles | 10 | |
| Kemling (historical) | 11.7 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 Oakland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q998663 | 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 459748. 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.




