Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Ogden, IA

Ogden is a city in Yell Township, Boone County, in central Iowa, part of the Boone micropolitan statistical area and the larger Ames–Boone combined statistical area.

Ogden was platted in 1866 and named for William B. Ogden, a railroad official who had served as the first mayor of Chicago.

A post office has been in operation at Ogden since 1871, and the town was incorporated in 1878.

Ogden's main street was part of the original Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental automobile road, and the highway through town was paved in 1929.

When U.S. Highway 30 was rerouted south of Ogden in 1965, residents saved a section of the old Lincoln Highway pavement containing footprints pressed into the wet cement, and that slab is still preserved in downtown Ogden.

Battin Heritage Park in Ogden preserves three Boone County buildings more than 135 years old: the Battin Chapel, the Berkley Railroad Depot and the Hickory Grove School.

Coal mining was once a mainstay of Ogden's economy — the first mine shaft was dug north of town in 1907 and the mines employed an estimated 300 people at one time before the industry closed down in 1953.

The Ogden Compressor Plant, built by Northern Natural Gas in 1934, also employed more than 300 people at its peak.

Ogden is associated with Brooklyn Supreme, a Belgian stallion recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's heaviest horse.

The 2020 census counted 2,007 people in Ogden, living in 826 households.