Yale, IA

Yale is a city in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 267 residents. Yale is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area. Yale was platted in 1882. Annually, Yale hosts a Fourth of July festival, which includes a street dance or a local band that plays at the Yale Community Club on the night of the Third of July. The district formed on July 1, 1989, as a merger of the Panora-Linden and Y-J-B school districts. That mix gives Yale a clear local shape within Iowa, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. Yale was named for its founder, Milo Yale. Yale hosts a Fourth of July festival.