
Mason City was named the county seat in 1858. The United States Post Office Department started service to the town in 1857. Lizzie Thompson established the first schoolhouse in a log cabin in 1856. Silas Card opened the first medical practice in the area. In 1854, John McMillin opened the first store, and Dr. The town had several names: Shibboleth, Masonic Grove, and Masonville until Mason City was adopted in 1855, in honor of a founder's son, Mason Long. The first settlement that became Shibboleth was established in 1853 at the confluence of the Winnebago River and Calmus Creek. The region around what would later be first called Shibboleth was a summer home to the Sioux and Winnebago nations. It is commonly referred to as the "River City", as the city grew up centered on the Winnebago River. The Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Cerro Gordo and Worth counties. The population was 27,338 in the 2020 census, a decline from 29,172 in the 2000 census. THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT.Mason City is a city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. Highway 92 between mile markers 270 and 308.įor your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a Highway 2 between mile markers 267 and 307.

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Management Area, Burr Oak and Gavin Siding. Round Valley, Etna, Milldale, Arcadia Diversion Dam State Wildlife Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,īroken Bow, Callaway, Sargent, Ansley, Merna, Mason City, Oconto,Ĭomstock, Berwyn, Weissert, Westerville, Lillian, Lodi, Buckeye, IMPACT.Hail damage to vehicles is expected. HAZARD.70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. * At 443 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a lineĮxtending from Berwyn to 9 miles northeast of Gothenburg, moving The National Weather Service in North Platte has issued aĮast central Lincoln County in southwestern Nebraska.

Locations AffectedAnsley, NE ∙ Merna, NE ∙ Comstock, NE ∙ Weissert, NE ∙ Oconto, NE ∙ Mason City, NE ∙ Berwyn, NE ∙ Callaway, NE ∙ Sargent, NE ∙ Broken Bow Municipal Airport, NE
