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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.

Dakota City within Dakota County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dakota 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,919
20202,081+162 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

2,805 words on this township

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 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 2003

Regional 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2017Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 November 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ballou Pit and PlantClayProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDakota City$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees uprooted or blown down. A flagpole was also blown down.
July 1996HailDakota City$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindDakota City$5,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDakota City-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few large trees blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDakota City-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including numerous trees blown down.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindDakota City-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
June 2001HailDakota City-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2009HailDakota City-no account filed
May 2004HailDakota City-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindDakota City-no account filed
April 2001HailDakota City-no account filed
June 2001HailDakota City-no account filed
June 2001HailDakota City-no account filed
August 2001HailDakota City-no account filed
July 1999Flash FloodDakota City-no account filed
May 1998HailDakota City-no account filed
June 1998HailDakota City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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
Millis Beach2.1 miles13
North Shore2.1 miles13
Freeway Homes2.3 miles13
South Sioux City4.0 miles13
Covington (historical)4.9 miles13
Homer7.5 miles11
Jackson8.1 miles11
Hubbard9.3 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 Dakota CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q941638The 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.