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Hale, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52362. The Survey maps it on the Wyoming West quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Hale within Jones County

On record in Hale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Hale between 2009 and 2018, burning about 84 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning5

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
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hale: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
John Clay QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Fleming-Jensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holtz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Freeman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wyoming QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hale in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHale$5,000no account filed
July 2024Tornado (EF0)Hale-An EF-0 tornado started in a field, flattening corn along its path. The tornado continued towards a farmstead, resulting in damage to the roof of the house, along with a metal structure toppling over on the house. The tornado continued to do damage to trees along its path, ending just across the Wapsipinicon River.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)Hale-A nearly stationary landspout (or non-supercell) tornado touched down in a field. There was no observable damage to assign a rating, so the tornado is classified as an EF-Unknown.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)Hale-A landspout(or non-supercell) tornado tracked through a field in southern Jones County. There was no observable damage to assign a rating, so the tornado is classified as EF-Unknown.
March 2012HailHale-Nickel sized hail fell about 5 miles west of Wyoming around 1020 pm CDT March 31.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Wyoming4.2 miles15
Olin4.5 miles12
Oxford Junction5.8 miles13
Oxford Mills6.0 miles13
Onslow6.9 miles15
Center Junction7.3 miles15
Newport7.8 miles15
Edinburg9.2 miles15

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 HaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5641344The 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 457200. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.