Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Sac City, IA

Sac City is the county seat and largest city of Sac County, Iowa, set in the rolling hills of the North Raccoon River valley near the junction of U.S. Routes 20 and 71.

Sac City was first platted in 1855 by Joshua Keith Powell of Fort Dodge, was named because the Sac and Meskwaki (Fox) peoples held the land at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, and was designated the county seat in 1856.

Judge Eugene Criss, honored as the father of Sac City, crossed the Mississippi by covered wagon in early 1855, built the town's first log cabin, and ran a hotel, stage station and general store for early settlers.

Sac City was incorporated in 1874, nineteen years after it was platted, and its first railroad, the Chicago and North Western, did not arrive until 1879.

The first Sac County Fair was held in Sac City in 1871 on ten acres east of town, drawing crowds from miles around for harness races, livestock and produce exhibits.

Sac City's Chautauqua Building, built in 1908 after the local Chautauqua Association organized in December 1904, is now the only surviving Chautauqua building of its kind in Iowa.

Sac City is home to the World's Largest Popcorn Ball — volunteers built the current record ball on June 18, 2016, weighing 9,370 pounds, and it is displayed in a pavilion next to the Sac City Museum, following earlier record balls of 3,100 pounds and 5,060 pounds (2009).

Sac City had 2,063 residents in the 2020 census, living in 953 households, down from its peak of 3,354 people in 1960.

Sac City is one of only 45 communities designated in the Main Street Iowa development program.

In 2017, lifelong Sac City resident and businessman John Criss donated $5.7 million from his estate to the city for beautification projects.