Badger
Badger is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States. The population was 522 at the 2020 census. The town got its name from Badger Creek, which itself got its name when a group of soldiers from Fort Dodge in the early 1850s saw a badger for the first time.- Type: Village with 522 residents
- Description: human settlement in Webster County, Iowa, United States of America
- Also known as: “Badger, IA” and “Badger, Iowa”
- Postal code: 50516
Badger
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Badger Township, Webster, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.61442° or 42° 36′ 52″ north
Longitude
-94.14616° or 94° 8′ 46″ west
Population
522
Elevation
1,152 feet (351 metres)
Open location code
86J7JV73+QG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Badger” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بادغير”
- Basque: “Badger”
- Catalan: “Badger”
- Cebuano: “Badger”
- Chechen: “Беджер”
- Chinese: “巴傑”
- Chinese: “巴德傑”
- Czech: “Badger”
- Danish: “Badger”
- Dutch: “Badger”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بادجير”
- French: “Badger”
- Georgian: “ბაჯერი”
- German: “Badger”
- Gilaki: “باپجر (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “باپجر”
- Haitian: “Badger, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Badger”
- Ido: “Badger, Iowa”
- Ido: “Badger”
- Irish: “Badger”
- Italian: “Badger”
- Japanese: “バジャー”
- Kazakh: “Бадгэр”
- Kirghiz: “Бадгэр”
- Ladin: “Badger”
- Malagasy: “Badger, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Badger”
- Mazanderani: “بجر (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “بجر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Badger”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Badger”
- Norwegian: “Badger”
- Persian: “بجر، آیووا”
- Persian: “بجر”
- Polish: “Badger”
- Portuguese: “Badger”
- Serbian: “Badger”
- Serbian: “Баџер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Badger, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Badger”
- Slovak: “Badger”
- South Azerbaijani: “بجر، آیووا”
- Spanish: “Badger”
- Swedish: “Badger, Iowa”
- Swedish: “Badger”
- Tatar: “Беджер”
- Ukrainian: “Беджер”
- Urdu: “بیجر، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “بیجر”
- Vietnamese: “Badger, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Badger”
- Volapük: “Badger”
- Welsh: “Badger, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Badger”
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Highlights: Badger Township Police Department and Badger Post Office.
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