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Sac City, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50583. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sac City East quadrangle. 2,063 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,217 feet above sea level.

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Sac City within Sac County

On record in Sac 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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sac City fell from 2,220 to 2,063 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
20102,220
20202,063-157 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sac City in 2011, burning about 1 acre 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
27 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1555 HIGHWAY 20, IA

Every fire recorded in Sac County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sac City: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Buckley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hosteng PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sac County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Uren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sac County

Storms near this place

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sac City in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 heavy rain, 5 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
August 1996FloodSac City$75,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodSac City$50,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSac City$50,000no account filed
July 1998FloodSac City$50,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodSac City$50,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSac City$30,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSac City$30,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSac City$25,000no account filed
August 1995HailSac City$15,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodSac City$10,000Street flooding was reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSac City$10,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSac City$10,000no account filed
July 2003HailSac City$5,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSac City$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSac City$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailSac City$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailSac City$3,000Hail reported to be dime to quarter size.
May 2008HailSac City$3,000no account filed
May 2008HailSac City$3,000no account filed
May 2008HailSac City$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSac City$2,000Several large tree limbs were downed.
June 2010HailSac City$1,000Nickel to quarter size hail in town.
August 2008HailSac City$1,000Nickel to quarter size hail fell in town.
August 2008HailSac City$1,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSac City$1,000no account filed
May 1998HailSac City$200no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSac City-Trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph and large branches down.
April 2025HailSac City-Report of lots of hail up to nickel sized.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSac City-Multiple branches up to 6 inches down across town with lone larger 12 inch branch down. Flattened corn outside of town. Delayed report, time estimated via radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSac City-No LSRs were transmitted from within the county during the August 10 derecho event. However, it is estimated by the NWS that areas of the county experienced severe winds and associated damage based on surrounding county LSRs and other available information.
September 2019Funnel CloudSac City-Trained spotter observed a funnel cloud NW of Sac City.
June 2018Flash FloodSac City-Trained spotter reported standing water at the intersection Audubon and 10th Street.
April 2017Heavy RainSac City-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.35 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainSac City-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.55 inches.
December 2015Heavy RainSac City-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.01 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
June 2014Heavy RainSac City-Storm total rainfall of 4.40 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainSac City-Rainfall during the last three hours was 3.25 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainSac City-Rain fell fell between 3 AM and 6 AM.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSac City-Large tree limbs down and table and chairs blown around on the deck.
June 2012Heavy RainSac City-Street flooding was caused by a 20 minute period of heavy rain.
June 2012Heavy RainSac City-A trained spotter measured 5.5 inches of rain so far today.
May 2008HailSac City-Two periods of hail occurred with the first lasting 30 to 45 seconds, the second was 2 minutes later and lasted 3-5 minutes. Hail covered the ground with half to three quarter inch hail.
April 2014Heavy RainSac City-no account filed
May 2012HailSac City-no account filed
June 2010HailSac City-no account filed
August 2010Funnel CloudSac City-no account filed
May 2008Heavy RainSac City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sac 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
Pettis4.7 miles8
Lytton6.9 miles8
Nemaha8.3 miles9
Lake View8.3 miles8
Lakeview8.6 miles8
Early9.0 miles8
Ulmer10.9 miles8
Hart10.9 miles8

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 Sac CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1903425The 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 460882. 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.