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.
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
Sioux County Courthouselisted 1977
Population over time
10 figuresOrange 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5,068 | |
| 2000 | 5,632 | +564 (+11%) |
| 2006 | 5,851 | +219 (+4%) |
| 2007 | 5,857 | +6 (+0%) |
| 2008 | 5,807 | -50 (-1%) |
| 2009 | 5,814 | +7 (+0%) |
| 2011 | 6,129 | +315 (+5%) |
| 2012 | 6,174 | +45 (+1%) |
| 2013 | 6,182 | +8 (+0%) |
| 2020 | 6,267 | +85 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Orange City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rock Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Cambrier | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Floyd Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| N Bloemendaal | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| North Alton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ruppert Bros | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
35 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines, resulting in power outages lasting several hours. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | Numerous trees were knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | Multiple tree branches from 4 to 6 inches in diameter were downed by thunderstorm winds on the Northwestern College campus. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | A large tree branch was downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | Large trees down throughout Orange City. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Orange City | - | Significant urban flooding occurring in Orange City. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | Branches from 6 to 7 inches in diameter were ripped off trees near downtown. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Orange City | - | Large hail was accompanied by heavy rain. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Orange City | - | Rainfall of four inches was reported. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Orange City | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Orange City | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several roads and local creeks. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Orange City | - | Large hail was accompanied by extimated 50 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Orange City | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads, as well as some yards and basements. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Orange City | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads in the Orange City area. Two cars were washed off the road near Highway 10. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Orange City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Orange City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alton | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Carnes | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Newkirk | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Maurice | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Middleburg | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Sioux Center | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Westbrook Village | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Hospers | 9.3 miles | 7 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1000030 | 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 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.



