Badger, Iowa

About Badger

Badger is a tiny community in northern Iowa with an estimated population of 540.

Badger holds the status of an incorporated city with its own municipal government. The community covers 1.12 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 482 residents per square mile.

📰 Badger News Today

• Kristinsdottir Leads Hawkeyes to 4th-Place Finish at Badger Invitational Iowa Hawkeyes Athletics · Sep 15
• Obituary information for Robert "Bob" Pederson Gunderson Funeral Home & Cremation Services · Apr 26
• Gregory Kruthoff Obituary Aug 8, 2026 Laufersweiler Funeral Home & Cremation Services · Aug 8
• Iowa women’s golf takes fourth at Badger Invitational The Daily Iowan · Sep 15
• Franklin "Fritz" George Groat Obituary Jan 5, 2026 Warner Funeral Homes & Crematory · Jan 5

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What Makes Badger Unique

• Positioned in northern Iowa, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
• Part of the fabric of Iowa — one of 1,026 recognized communities statewide.

Why People Love It Here

• A tight community feel that bigger cities can't replicate.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 8 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Badger

• Deer Creek Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• John F. Kennedy Memorial County Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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