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Halbur, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Roselle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51444. It stands on Halburn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carroll West quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,407 feet above sea level.

Halbur within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Halbur fell from 246 to 243 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010246
2020243-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Halbur between 2006 and 2016, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources6301 JADE AVE, IA
29 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesTEMPLETON FIRE DEPARTMENT
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources25607 HWY 30 CARROLL, IA, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halbur in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 tornado, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Tornado (EF1)Halbur$100,000An EF1 tornado was on the ground for a brief time with a path length of 2.5 miles due east. Width was up to 100 yards with peak wind estimated at around 95 mph. A roof was blown off a hog confinement building and Morton building with other damage in between.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHalbur$25,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHalbur$10,000Two to six inch diameter limbs blown down and a garage roof blown off.
October 2015Tornado (EF0)Halbur$5,000This tornado left a pronounced track in several fields and damaged several small outbuildings.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHalbur$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHalbur$3,000no account filed
April 1998HailHalbur$3,000no account filed
July 2008HailHalbur$1,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHalbur-Emergency manager reported trees down in Halbur. Time estimated from radar.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHalbur-Fire department reported estimated winds between 65 and 70 mph over the last 15 minutes.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHalbur-Personal weather station recorded 65 mph gust.
September 2023HailHalbur-Report from mPING of quarter (1 inch) hail.
June 2020Funnel CloudHalbur-Law enforcement reported funnel cloud near Halbur.
June 2018Heavy RainHalbur-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.28 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2017Heavy RainHalbur-Public reported heavy rainfall of 1.80 inches.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Halbur-QLCS tornado that moved north and merged with another tornado just prior to lifting. Tornado found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Halbur-QLCS tornado which moved northward and merged with another tornado just prior to ending. The tornado severly damaged two grain bins along its path. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
June 1999HailHalbur-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Roselle2.9 miles8
Templeton6.3 miles9
Maple River6.6 miles8
Carroll6.8 miles8
Arcadia6.9 miles8
Willey8.1 miles9
Manning8.4 miles8
Dedham10.5 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HalburAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933390The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457199. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.