Dyersville is a city in eastern Delaware County and western Dubuque County in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is part of the Dubuque, Iowa, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,477 at the time of the 2020 census, up from 4,035 in 2000.
Dyersville was laid out in 1851. It was named for early landowner James Dyer (1820-1864). Dyer immigrated from Banwell, England, and established a hotel, The Clarendon, in 1857. His sons, James Andrew Dyer with the 6th Iowa Cavalry Regiment and Henry Andrew Dyer with the 21st Iowa Infantry Regiment, served in the United States Civil War.
The 1989 movie Field of Dreams was filmed at a farm near Dyersville. The facility, now named for the movie, hosted the Major League Baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees (broadcast live as MLB at Field of Dreams) on August 12, 2021. It had originally been scheduled for the previous year but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
