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Sergeant Bluff, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Woodbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51054. It sits by Sergeant Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Sergeant Bluff quadrangle. 5,015 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Sergeant Bluff within Woodbury County

On record in Sergeant Bluff

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

2 figures

Sergeant Bluff grew from 4,227 to 5,015 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
20104,227
20205,015+788 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sergeant Bluff between 2003 and 2012, burning about 228 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/undetermined5
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
19 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 November 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 November 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sergeant Bluff: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Ballou Pit and PlantClayProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Woodbury County

Storms near this place

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sergeant Bluff in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff$100,000Thunderstorm winds overturned semi trucks on Interstate 29. The winds also caused tree damage, including large trees blown down. A few homes were damaged by falling trees or tree debris.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff$100,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, with branches and other tree debris littering streets. The winds also blew down power lines and caused power outages.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Tree damage was reported in southeastern Sioux City from late afternoon thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2024HailSergeant Bluff-Hail mainly of half dollar size or a bit larger covered the ground.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees, caused some siding damage and took several power lines down around Sergeant Bluff.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Thunderstorm winds were measured on a personal weather station in 4 miles north-northeast of Sergeant Bluff.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-An older tree was blown down across the road near the intersection of Dogwood Trail and Port Neal Road.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Thunderstorm winds gusts toppled a tree in Sergeant Bluff.
May 2022Tornado (EFU)Sergeant Bluff-A video showed a brief tornado crossing Interstate 29 between Sergeant Bluff and Port Neal. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.
June 2016Heavy RainSergeant Bluff-Rainfall of 1.62 inches was measured.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 4 inch diameter branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by small hail.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several small limbs blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-Thunderstorm winds overturned a construction trailer near the Southern Hills Mall.
August 2007Flash FloodSergeant Bluff-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of streets, yards, and ditches.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Sergeant Bluff-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2000Flash FloodSergeant Bluff-Very heavy rain caused widespread street and lowland flooding.
April 2025HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
July 2024HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2024HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2018HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2018HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
May 2016HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
August 2014HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2014HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2014HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-no account filed
July 2008HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
August 2007HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
May 2004HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 2003HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
May 2002HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
May 2002HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
May 2002HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
April 2001HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
April 2001HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 1999HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSergeant Bluff-no account filed
July 1996HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed
June 1996HailSergeant Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodbury 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
Estates West0.4 miles12
Glen Ellen2.3 miles12
Morningside4.5 miles12
Regency of Sioux City5.7 miles12
Sioux City7.0 miles13
Salix7.6 miles11
Bronson7.7 miles9
Holiday Village7.9 miles12

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 Sergeant BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2226992The 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 461507. 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.