Ralston city, IA
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Identify the place before assigning a request
The Census identifies this place as Ralston city in IA, with place GEOID 1965505. Use the caller’s complete address to check your own service territory; a familiar place name alone may not identify the responsible branch.
- Published land area
- 1.97 square miles
- Census internal point
- 42.041855, -94.629287
These describe a Census geography. They are not an AnSer office location, ZIP-code boundary, travel-time estimate, or guaranteed service radius.
Other places with the same shortened name
The chat city selector removes Census suffixes such as “city” and “CDP.” These other records have the same shortened name. Confirm the state and full address before assigning the caller to a branch; the names below are geographic records, not postal-address validation.
- Ralston city, NEGEOID 3140605
- Ralston town, OKGEOID 4061650
- Ralston CDP, WYGEOID 5663465
County coverage to confirm
The 2025 Census geography file places Ralston city within these 2 counties or county equivalents:
- Carroll County, Iowa (GEOID 19027)
- Greene County, Iowa (GEOID 19073)
This place spans more than one county. If your business assigns branches or on-call contacts by county, the place name alone cannot select the right contact. Confirm the complete service address and county before routing the request.
These are geographic relationships, not approved AnSer coverage or legal jurisdiction determinations. Record your business’s county exceptions in the worksheet below.
Source: 2025 Census Geography Information
Nearby places to review with your team
Decide which of these places belongs in your accepted territory and which requires a different branch or an out-of-area response. Distances are straight-line calculations between Census internal points, not driving distances or distances between boundaries.
| Place | State | Approximate miles |
|---|---|---|
| Scranton city | IA | 4.4 |
| Glidden city | IA | 5.1 |
| Lidderdale city | IA | 9.7 |
| Lanesboro city | IA | 10.2 |
| Willey city | IA | 10.8 |
| Churdan city | IA | 11.0 |
| Coon Rapids city | IA | 11.8 |
| Carroll city | IA | 12.2 |
Draft your territory decisions
Review these places with your team. Mark uncertain addresses for confirmation rather than assuming an entire place is covered. Your territory decisions and notes stay in this browser page and are not submitted to AnSer. Before downloading, share your contact details with our team through the form.
Record the responsible team and where address or after-hours exceptions should go. Do not include patient, client, or other sensitive caller information.
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This worksheet does not change your service or call routing.
Turn geography into approved call instructions
- Record the actual addresses, ZIP codes, or boundaries your business accepts. Nearby places are suggestions to review, not automatically included territory.
- Assign the primary and backup contact for each accepted area and coverage period.
- Specify what the answering team may say when an address is uncertain or outside your territory.
Use the after-hours escalation checklist to define the handoff after the responsible contact has been identified.
Source and method
2025 U.S. Census Gazetteer place file. Official names retain Census legal or statistical suffixes. Distances use a spherical great-circle calculation with a mean Earth radius of 3,958.7613 miles. The data do not measure call demand or AnSer service availability.