Home › Iowa › Ida County

Ida County, Iowa

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1851formed

7,005pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Ida Grove, Battle Creek, Cushing.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Iowa is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Ida titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bell, Alvin Bushnell, House	Ida Grove	Building	1983
Ida County Courthouse	Ida Grove	Building	1974
Moorehead Stagecoach Inn	Ida Grove	Building	1974
Warnock, Dr. Francis B., House	Battle Creek	Building	1988
Waveland Round Barn	Cushing	Building	1986

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ida was formed in 1851 (1851-01-15) from unknown / original county.

IDA created from Non-County Area 9 attached to POLK.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ida County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
43	4,382	12,327	11,689	11,047	10,697	10,269	8,908	7,837	7,005

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

15 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Battle Center Cemetery	42.42892	-95.61345
Fairview Cemetery	42.53235	-95.66161
Galva Township Cemetery	42.50316	-95.46673
Galva Township Cemetery East	42.50287	-95.40815
Grant Cemetery	42.22393	-95.45694
Hayes Chapel Cemetery	42.27241	-95.42143
Hayes Township Cemetery	42.29437	-95.343
Holstein Cemetery	42.51221	-95.5436
Ida Grove Cemetery	42.35659	-95.45133
Moorehead Cemetery	42.35448	-95.48376
Mount Hope Cemetery	42.32083	-95.60945
Norwegian Cemetery	42.49057	-95.62323
Our Lady of Good Counsel Cemetery	42.47537	-95.56313
Sacred Heart Cemetery	42.35033	-95.49701
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery	42.51868	-95.41832

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Ida County, Iowa

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.