Dakota City, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Dakota City City. It lies in ZIP code area 68731. The Survey maps it on the Sioux City South quadrangle. 2,081 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.
On record in Dakota City
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
Emmanuel Lutheran Churchlisted 1969
Population over time
2 figuresDakota City grew from 1,919 to 2,081 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 | 1,919 | |
| 2020 | 2,081 | +162 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,805 words on this townshipWarner's History of Dakota County, Nebraska, from the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes of Ye Olden Times, published 1893 names this settlement in its chapter on Dakota City City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Court House. --For more than fifteen years the county records were scattered around in log cabins and rented houses. January 2, 186U, the county commissioners ordered that steps be taken for the Iniilding of a, C(Mirt house and jail, but the project failed for the want of sufficient funds. A special county election was held June 18, 1870, to vote on a proposition to bond the county for the erection of a !i^l5, 000 court house, $5,000 to be paid by Dakota City, at wliich time there were 170 votes for and 165 against bonds. Commissioners ordered bonds issued September 15, 1870,
Passage source: Warner's History of Dakota County, Nebraska, from the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes of Ye Olden Times, published 1893.
Post Office. - The postmasters at Dakota City have been James W. Virtue, C. F. Eckiiart, Barnal)as Bates, Helen Bates, M. O. Ayres, Henry Herweg, D. C.Stinson and Mell A. Schmied. This is a postal note ;in<l money order ofKce. The post office was first kept in the Chihuahua House, then moved to a building opposite the Bates House on Broadway, then to a house east of the old Griffey residence, from here it was taken to C. F. Eckiiart's store, then to Bates House, to Col. B. Bates' residence on Walnut street, to M. O. Ayres* stores on Broadway, to Stinson & Herweg's stoi-e on corner of Broadway and Fifteenth street, tiien to its present location on corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street.
Passage source: Warner's History of Dakota County, Nebraska, from the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes of Ye Olden Times, published 1893.
Societies, - Among tlie tirst societies of Dakota City was the Sons of Malta, of which Col. 13. Bates was the principal factor, and he relates many amusing incidents of the doings of that organization. See biographical sketch of his life elsewhere in this book.
Passage source: Warner's History of Dakota County, Nebraska, from the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes of Ye Olden Times, published 1893.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Dakota City City - it names this place 10 more 10 times.
Fires near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dakota City between 2003 and 2017, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 November 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dakota City: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballou Pit and Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dakota City in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dakota City | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees uprooted or blown down. A flagpole was also blown down. |
| July 1996 | Hail | Dakota City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dakota City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dakota City | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few large trees blown down. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dakota City | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including numerous trees blown down. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dakota City | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dakota City | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Dakota City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Dakota City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millis Beach | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| North Shore | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Freeway Homes | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| South Sioux City | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Covington (historical) | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Homer | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Jackson | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hubbard | 9.3 miles | 11 |
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 Dakota City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q941638 | 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 828554. 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.





