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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.

Oakland within Pottawattamie County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakland 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,527
20201,524-3 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

1 since 2007

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oakland Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawattamie County

Storms near this place

49 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994HailOakland$50,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindOakland$50,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and a machine shed east of Oakland.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOakland$1,000no account filed
April 2026HailOakland-Emergency management report of hail measured up to 1 inch in diameter near Oakland, IA.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOakland-A 58 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
September 2022HailOakland-Public reported 1.75-inch hail.
June 2021HailOakland-Public reported 1.25 inch hail.
June 2021HailOakland-Trained spotter reported 1.75 inch hail in downtown Oakland, IA.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOakland-Public reported multiple 7 inch tree branches down. Also noted dime sized hail.
April 2018HailOakland-Ping Pong ball size hail was reported south southeast of Oakland.
April 2018HailOakland-Golf ball hail was reported 2 3/4 miles south of Oakland.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOakland-Large (14 inch) tree limb blown down 3 mile east of Oakland.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOakland-A very large tree limb (14 inches in diameter) was broken off in damaging winds 3 miles east of Oakland.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOakland-Trees were blown down across a road from damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindOakland-The bowing thunderstorm segment that began in the Omaha brought winds estimated at 60 mph to the Oakland area.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph downed some tree limbs in the Oakland area.
June 2012HailOakland-Mostly pea to dime-size but a few nickel-size hailstones fell for several minutes in the Oakland area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph.
September 2010HailOakland-The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain which totaled around 4 inches in about 90 minutes.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed a few tree limbs in town.
July 2010Funnel CloudOakland-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 2008Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed a few trees across Highway 6 near Oakland.
June 2008HailOakland-Cherry size hail or dimes to a little larger was reported near Oakland.
June 2008Flash FloodOakland-Flash flooding was reported across a road a mile west of Oakland.
March 2007HailOakland-Hail up to nickel size was reported near Oakland.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindOakland-The thunderstorm winds were also accompanied by dime size hail.
April 2007HailOakland-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Oakland-This tornado damaged trees and destroyed barns and sheds in its path. Some power poles were also downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph blew down a few trees in town.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOakland-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 2005Thunderstorm WindOakland-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 2000HailOakland-Reported by the public.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph uprooted a tree in Oakland.
June 2014HailOakland-no account filed
April 2014HailOakland-no account filed
March 2007HailOakland-no account filed
May 2007HailOakland-no account filed
August 2004HailOakland-no account filed
April 2001HailOakland-no account filed
April 2001HailOakland-no account filed
June 2001HailOakland-no account filed
August 2001HailOakland-no account filed
July 2000HailOakland-no account filed
May 1999HailOakland-no account filed
May 1999HailOakland-no account filed
May 1999HailOakland-no account filed
September 1999HailOakland-no account filed
September 1999HailOakland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawattamie 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
Iola (historical)1.9 miles9
Carson5.1 miles9
Hancock5.9 miles10
Taylor7.0 miles9
Macedonia8.2 miles9
York Center9.6 miles11
Newtown (historical)10.5 miles10
Kemling (historical)11.7 miles9

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 OaklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998663The 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.