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Sidney, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sidney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51652. The Survey maps it on the Sidney quadrangle. 1,070 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Sidney within Fremont County

On record in Sidney

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

Sidney fell from 1,138 to 1,070 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
20101,138
20201,070-68 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sidney between 2006 and 2020, burning about 183 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/undetermined4
Smoking2
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
8 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2020Smoking80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2020Smoking43 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesGLENWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT
1 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sidney in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1993HailSidney$50,000no account filed
August 1993Tornado (F0)Sidney$50no account filed
July 2024HailSidney-Emergency management reported lots of hail the size of dimes and nickels with a few quarter sized hail stones mixed in. Time slightly adjusted to account for a delay in the report from when the hail actually fell.
May 2023HailSidney-Public reported 1.75-inch hail.
April 2023HailSidney-Public reported 2-inch hail.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSidney-The public reported an estimated wind gust of 63 mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSidney-A tree blew down onto a power line 4 1/2 miles south southwest of Sidney.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSidney-Power lines and poles were reported blown over by the winds.
June 2017HailSidney-A trained storm spotter reported quarter size to half dollar size hail.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSidney-The observer reported winds in excess of 60 mph.
June 2015FloodSidney-The USGS Gages near Riverton on both the West and East Nishnabotna Rivers showed minor flooding with two crests. The first, and more minor of the two crests, came on the 12th and was just 0.3 above food stage on the East Nishnabotna and 0.9 above on the West Nishnabotna. The second higher crests came on the 15th into the 16th and was 0.47 above on the East, and 2.92 feet above on the West. Both crests caused minor low land flooding along the river.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph caused extensive tree and property damage in the Sidney area. The county Chief Deputy reported that there was a tree down on about every block. Pieces of a roof of an auto parts store blew off and damaged several vehicles in the area and a grocery store lost several windows. A barn collapsed from the winds as well. Power poles were snapped and the power was lost across a large part of the area.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Sidney-A bookend vortex spun up another brief tornado in between Sidney and Randolph. The tornado was only on the ground a minute or two and did no apparent damage. Emergency management spotted this tornado from his office in Sidney and stated that there possibly could have been 2 or 3 funnels or tornadoes from this particular supercell at this time.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm winds estimated at between 60 and 70 mph downed several trees on Bluff Road in the area.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed some large tree branches which caused power lines to fall in Sidney.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph knocked down several large tree limbs in town and caused some minor barn and house damage.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph combined with small hail to cause considerable crop damage across the east central sections of Fremont county.
August 2004HailSidney-Hail up to golfball size was reported by a storm chaser near exit 10 on Interstate 29 south of Sidney.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines in Sidney.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSidney-Estimated 60 mph thunderstorm gusts downed power lines.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSidney-no account filed
June 2017HailSidney-no account filed
June 2017HailSidney-no account filed
April 2015HailSidney-no account filed
March 2012HailSidney-no account filed
June 2011HailSidney-no account filed
May 2007HailSidney-no account filed
May 2001HailSidney-no account filed
May 2001HailSidney-no account filed
May 1997HailSidney-no account filed
May 1997Funnel CloudSidney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Anderson4.3 miles9
Riverton6.0 miles12
Thurman7.3 miles9
Payne8.1 miles12
Percival8.8 miles12
Farragut9.0 miles10
Randolph9.6 miles9
McPaul9.7 miles15

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 SidneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913522The 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 461599. 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.

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.