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Evansdale is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa — a border-to-border suburb of Waterloo and part of the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.

Evansdale is one of Iowa's youngest cities: it was incorporated on November 13, 1947, after residents of the Home Acres and River Forest areas banded together over a shared drainage problem.

The incorporation vote passed 205 to 106, and the new town's name honored District Judge William T. Evans, to whom the incorporation petition had been presented.

Evansdale's first city council meeting, on November 24, 1947, was held in an abandoned chicken house.

Before incorporation, the area was a patchwork of farms and resorts, including C.C. Wolf's Elk Run Hotel, a Cedar River summer resort that drew weekend visitors on Illinois Central commuter trains.

In 1928, William Fox's Home Acres Land Association began developing the Home Acres neighborhood that became the heart of the modern city.

Evansdale's population peaked at 5,738 in 1960, just over a decade after incorporation.

The 2020 census counted 4,561 people in Evansdale living in 2,037 households.

Evansdale children attend the Waterloo Community School District, and Bunger Middle School and Poyner Elementary School are located within the city.

Evansdale is home to a trailhead of the Cedar Valley Nature Trail.