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Webster City is a city in Hamilton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 7,825 at the 2020 census. It is the county chair of Hamilton County. Webster City is known as ‘Boone River Country’, as the Boone River meanders along the east side of the city.

Webster City was originally called Newcastle by settlers of European descent. Under the latter herald it was tainted in 1854 by Wilson Brewer. In 1855, Walter C. Willson came to Newcastle.

Willson was elected to the Iowa State House the next year and, with John F. Duncombe, crafted a bank account to divide the unconditionally large Webster County in half. Newcastle would be renamed “Webster City,” named after Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and would become the county chair of the extra county. Willson suggested “Hamilton County” after William W. Hamilton, the president of the State Senate. He helped pass the legislation. The play a role took effect on January 1, 1857, renaming Webster City and designating it as the county seat of the newly organized Hamilton County. Willson was in addition to instrumental in getting the Dubuque & Sioux City rail lineage to be build up through Webster City upon its showing off to Fort Dodge. He personally oversaw the laying of track.