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Orange City, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Holland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51041. The Survey maps it on the Orange City quadrangle. 6,267 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Orange City within Sioux County

On record in Orange City

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 1 record

Population over time

10 figures

Orange City grew from 5,068 to 6,267 between 1990 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
19905,068
20005,632+564 (+11%)
20065,851+219 (+4%)
20075,857+6 (+0%)
20085,807-50 (-1%)
20095,814+7 (+0%)
20116,129+315 (+5%)
20126,174+45 (+1%)
20136,182+8 (+0%)
20206,267+85 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Orange City in 2018, burning about 22 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
Debris and open burning1

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
30 April 2018Debris and open burning22 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sioux County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Orange City: 14 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
Alton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
CambrierSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Floyd GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
N BloemendaalSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Alton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ruppert BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sioux County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange City in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindOrange City$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines, resulting in power outages lasting several hours.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindOrange City$50,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOrange City$10,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOrange City-An extended period of damaging thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station, with a peak of 92 mph at 2036 CST.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Numerous trees were knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Multiple tree branches from 4 to 6 inches in diameter were downed by thunderstorm winds on the Northwestern College campus.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindOrange City-A large tree branch was downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Large trees down throughout Orange City.
September 2018Flash FloodOrange City-Significant urban flooding occurring in Orange City.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Branches from 6 to 7 inches in diameter were ripped off trees near downtown.
August 2016HailOrange City-Large hail was accompanied by heavy rain.
August 2016Heavy RainOrange City-Rainfall of four inches was reported.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Orange City-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2010Flash FloodOrange City-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several roads and local creeks.
June 2010HailOrange City-Large hail was accompanied by extimated 50 mph wind gusts.
June 2010Flash FloodOrange City-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads, as well as some yards and basements.
August 2007Flash FloodOrange City-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads in the Orange City area. Two cars were washed off the road near Highway 10.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
July 2022HailOrange City-no account filed
July 2012HailOrange City-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOrange City-no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindOrange City-no account filed
June 2007HailOrange City-no account filed
March 2006HailOrange City-no account filed
September 2004HailOrange City-no account filed
July 2003HailOrange City-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOrange City-no account filed
October 2002HailOrange City-no account filed
April 2001HailOrange City-no account filed
April 2001HailOrange City-no account filed
April 2001HailOrange City-no account filed
April 2001HailOrange City-no account filed
June 2001HailOrange City-no account filed
July 1997HailOrange City-no account filed
May 1996HailOrange City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sioux 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
Alton2.9 miles10
Carnes5.5 miles10
Newkirk6.1 miles7
Maurice7.1 miles10
Middleburg7.4 miles7
Sioux Center8.0 miles8
Westbrook Village8.5 miles8
Hospers9.3 miles7

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 Orange CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000030The 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 459884. 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.