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Waukee, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50263. The Survey maps it on the Waukee quadrangle. 23,940 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Waukee within Dallas County

On record in Waukee

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

Waukee grew from 13,790 to 23,940 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
201013,790
202023,940+10,150 (+74%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Waukee in 2009, burning about 4 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/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
4 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Waukee: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Schuler Coal Co. No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waukee in 50 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 23 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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
June 2014Flash FloodWaukee$200,000Suger Creek was out of its banks and flooding Ashworth road. The road was closed.
March 2007HailWaukee$50,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWaukee$40,000no account filed
May 2020Tornado (EF0)Waukee$30,000A tornado developed on the north edge of downtown Waukee and moved northwest, causing minor damage at a church and car dealership. The tornado also removed some shingles and roofing to a new house that was still under construction.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWaukee$30,000Ten to 15 foot mature tree blown down at Centennial Park.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWaukee$30,000no account filed
August 2010Flash FloodWaukee$25,000Four to six inches of water over Highway 6 at Highway R22.
May 1998HailWaukee$20,000no account filed
June 2015Flash FloodWaukee$10,000Public reported approximately 2 feet of water in the street along Cedar Ave in Waukee.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWaukee$10,000Two foot diameter tree snapped off a few feet above the ground.
June 2009Flash FloodWaukee$10,000Sugar Creek was flooding and continued to rise rapidly in Waukee near Centennial Park.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWaukee$10,000no account filed
April 2001HailWaukee$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailWaukee$10,000no account filed
July 1999HailWaukee$10,000no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindWaukee$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWaukee$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWaukee$5,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWaukee$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWaukee$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailWaukee$3,000no account filed
May 2004HailWaukee$3,000no account filed
April 2001HailWaukee$3,000no account filed
May 2001HailWaukee$3,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindWaukee$3,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWaukee$3,000no account filed
March 2011HailWaukee$2,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWaukee$2,000no account filed
May 2004HailWaukee$2,000no account filed
April 1999HailWaukee$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWaukee$2,000no account filed
March 1998HailWaukee$2,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWaukee$1,000NWS Employee reported numerous 3-4 inch branches down. Time estimated by radar.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWaukee$1,000Winds estimated by broadcast media of 60 MPH with minor damage.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Waukee$1,000Tornado touched down in fields west of Waukee.
October 2007FloodWaukee$1,000no account filed
June 2005HailWaukee$1,000no account filed
May 2004HailWaukee$1,000no account filed
May 1998HailWaukee$1,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWaukee-Wind gusts estimated around 60 to 70 mph on the west side of Waukee.
July 2019Heavy RainWaukee-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.01 inches from the thunderstorms. Beginning time estimated from radar.
June 2017HailWaukee-Public reported quarter sized hail.
June 2017HailWaukee-Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail.
July 2015Heavy RainWaukee-CoCoRaHS report of 2.08 inches of rain over a 24 hour period.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Waukee-Brief touchdown
August 2022HailWaukee-no account filed
March 2007HailWaukee-no account filed
March 2005HailWaukee-no account filed
June 2001HailWaukee-no account filed
March 1998HailWaukee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Midwest Country Estates1.0 miles11
Ortonville4.0 miles11
Booneville6.0 miles11
Dallas Center6.4 miles10
Van Meter6.6 miles11
Adel7.0 miles14
De Soto8.6 miles14
Ingersoll (historical)9.0 miles11

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 WaukeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1914068The 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 462752. 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.