Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Pomeroy, IA

Pomeroy is a city in Calhoun County in northwest Iowa, and it was platted in 1870 in anticipation of the railroad being built through the settlement.

Pomeroy was named for Charles Pomeroy, an Iowa politician, and the city was incorporated on April 22, 1880.

On July 6, 1893, Pomeroy was struck by a tornado later estimated at F5 strength, with a damage path 500 yards wide and 55 miles long that destroyed about 80% of the homes in town, killed 71 people, and injured 200.

Pomeroy lies within the western side of the Manson crater, a meteor impact structure buried beneath glacial deposits in northwest Iowa.

The 2020 census counted 526 people in Pomeroy living in 248 households.

Pomeroy's population peaked at 910 residents in the 1900 census, just seven years after the great tornado, and has declined in most censuses since.

Pomeroy residents have a median age of 49.9 years, making it one of the older small towns in northwest Iowa.

Pomeroy students are served by the Pocahontas Area Community School District, after the local district consolidated in stages in 1993 and 2012.

Pomeroy was the hometown of Gordon Prange, author of 'At Dawn We Slept,' the classic history of Pearl Harbor, and of Paul Schell, who later became mayor of Seattle, Washington.