Halfa, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Armstrong Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50514. The Survey maps it on the Ringsted quadrangle.

Halfa within Emmet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Ringsted quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Estherville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Halfa: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gaarde Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kossuth County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
West Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halfa in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Halfa	-	CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.52 inches over the last 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gridley	3.7 miles	7
Ringsted	4.3 miles	7
Armstrong	4.5 miles	7
Maple Hill	5.2 miles	7
Bubona (historical)	6.5 miles	7
Hoprig	7.0 miles	7
Forsyth	7.6 miles	7
Dolliver	8.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457204. 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.

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.