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Wall Lake, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Levey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51466. The Survey maps it on the Lake View quadrangle. 755 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,257 feet above sea level.

Wall Lake within Sac County

On record in Wall Lake

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

Wall Lake fell from 819 to 755 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
2010819
2020755-64 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wall Lake in 2006, burning under an 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
25 June 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 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 Wall Lake: 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
Black Hawk Lake State Area PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake View Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meister PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wall Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sac County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wall Lake in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$70,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$40,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$35,000no account filed
August 2009HailWall Lake$25,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$20,000Wind damage including numerous branches down and a few trees down across southern and southwestern Sac County.
April 1998HailWall Lake$10,000no account filed
August 2009HailWall Lake$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailWall Lake$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$5,000no account filed
May 2012HailWall Lake$2,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$2,000no account filed
April 2014HailWall Lake$1,000Most of the hail was pea size with the ground covered. Several stones were nickel to quarter size.
April 1998HailWall Lake$1,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWall Lake-Delayed report from Wall Lake post office of large tree down near Needham Ave. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017Heavy RainWall Lake-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.30 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2023HailWall Lake-no account filed
July 2005HailWall Lake-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWall Lake-no account filed
August 2000HailWall Lake-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
Sac City Junction (historical)1.1 miles8
Lakeview3.3 miles8
Lake View3.5 miles8
Carnarvon4.0 miles8
McCloy (historical)4.6 miles8
Hart5.3 miles8
Brogan (historical)6.5 miles8
Ulmer7.6 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 Wall LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1005695The 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 462614. 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.