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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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
Park Hotellisted 2017
George and Lola Perkins Houselisted 2016
Sac City Chicago and North Western Depotlisted 2016
Sac City Monument Square Historic Districtlisted 2015
Sac County Courthouselisted 1981
Seven Oakslisted 1996- Chautauqua Park Historic Districtlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresSac 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,220 | |
| 2020 | 2,063 | -157 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Sac City East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1555 HIGHWAY 20, IA |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hosteng Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sac County Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| 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 | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Uren Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
47 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Flood | Sac City | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Sac City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Flood | Sac City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Sac City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Sac City | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Sac City | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Sac City | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Sac City | $10,000 | Street flooding was reported. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Sac City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Sac City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Sac City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Sac City | $3,000 | Hail reported to be dime to quarter size. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Sac City | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Sac City | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Sac City | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $2,000 | Several large tree limbs were downed. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Sac City | $1,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail in town. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Sac City | $1,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail fell in town. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Sac City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Sac City | $200 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | - | Trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph and large branches down. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Sac City | - | Report of lots of hail up to nickel sized. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac 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 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Sac City | - | Trained spotter observed a funnel cloud NW of Sac City. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Sac City | - | Trained spotter reported standing water at the intersection Audubon and 10th Street. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.35 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.55 inches. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.01 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Storm total rainfall of 4.40 inches. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Rainfall during the last three hours was 3.25 inches. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Rain fell fell between 3 AM and 6 AM. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sac City | - | Large tree limbs down and table and chairs blown around on the deck. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | Street flooding was caused by a 20 minute period of heavy rain. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | A trained spotter measured 5.5 inches of rain so far today. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Sac 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | Sac City | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sac City | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Sac City | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Sac City | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Heavy Rain | Sac 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.
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1903425 | 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 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.





