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.
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
Fremont County Courthouselisted 1981
Population over time
2 figuresSidney 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,138 | |
| 2020 | 1,070 | -68 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1939 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Smoking | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Smoking | 43 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | GLENWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT |
| 1 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Sidney | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Sidney | $50 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Sidney | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Sidney | - | Public reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Sidney | - | Public reported 2-inch hail. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | The public reported an estimated wind gust of 63 mph. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | A tree blew down onto a power line 4 1/2 miles south southwest of Sidney. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | Power lines and poles were reported blown over by the winds. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Sidney | - | A trained storm spotter reported quarter size to half dollar size hail. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | The observer reported winds in excess of 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Sidney | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | 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 2008 | Tornado (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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at between 60 and 70 mph downed several trees on Bluff Road in the area. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed some large tree branches which caused power lines to fall in Sidney. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph combined with small hail to cause considerable crop damage across the east central sections of Fremont county. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Sidney | - | Hail up to golfball size was reported by a storm chaser near exit 10 on Interstate 29 south of Sidney. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines in Sidney. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | Estimated 60 mph thunderstorm gusts downed power lines. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Sidney | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Sidney | - | 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 Sidney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1913522 | 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 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.







