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.
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
- Chicago and North Western Passenger Depotlisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresWall 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 819 | |
| 2020 | 755 | -64 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Lake View quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ida Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 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:
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hawk Lake State Area Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lake View Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Meister Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past 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 | ||
| Wall Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Waters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | $70,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | $35,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wall Lake | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | $20,000 | Wind damage including numerous branches down and a few trees down across southern and southwestern Sac County. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Wall Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wall Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Wall Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wall Lake | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Wall Lake | $1,000 | Most of the hail was pea size with the ground covered. Several stones were nickel to quarter size. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Wall Lake | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | - | Delayed report from Wall Lake post office of large tree down near Needham Ave. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Wall Lake | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.30 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Wall Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Wall Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wall Lake | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sac City Junction (historical) | 1.1 miles | 8 | |
| Lakeview | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Lake View | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Carnarvon | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| McCloy (historical) | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Hart | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Brogan (historical) | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Ulmer | 7.6 miles | 8 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1005695 | 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 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.




