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Havelock, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cummins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50546. The Survey maps it on the Havelock quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Havelock within Pocahontas County

Population over time

2 figures

Havelock fell from 138 to 130 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
2010138
2020130-8 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Havelock between 2006 and 2009, burning about 23 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/undetermined3

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
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pocahontas County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Havelock: 7 past producers. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Havelock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stotz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pocahontas County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Havelock in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
October 2000Tornado (F1)Havelock$50,000Wagons were overturned in Pocahontas County before the tornado moved into Palo Alto County.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHavelock$25,000Barn doors were blown off. Also crop damage was reported.
May 2001HailHavelock$20,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindHavelock$10,000no account filed
April 2002HailHavelock$7,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHavelock$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailHavelock$5,000no account filed
August 1995HailHavelock$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailHavelock$3,000no account filed
June 2001HailHavelock$3,000no account filed
September 2004HailHavelock$2,000no account filed
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Havelock-Brief tornado that remained in open cropland. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating.
May 2023Heavy RainHavelock-Storm total of 2.96 inches.
August 2020Funnel CloudHavelock-County dispatch relayed reports of a funnel cloud near Haverlock.
July 2019Funnel CloudHavelock-Spencer Radio Group relayed public image of a funnel cloud south of Curlew. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2016Heavy RainHavelock-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.60 inches total from event spanning two observation periods. End time estimated from radar.
April 2004HailHavelock-no account filed
April 2002HailHavelock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pocahontas 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
Ridotto1.3 miles8
Ware4.4 miles8
Plover5.1 miles8
Rubens Siding6.5 miles8
Pocahontas7.1 miles8
Laurens8.1 miles8
Rolfe9.3 miles8
Westview10.7 miles8

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 HavelockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q590396The 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 457320. 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.