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.
Population over time
2 figuresHavelock 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 138 | |
| 2020 | 130 | -8 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Havelock quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havelock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stotz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Havelock | $50,000 | Wagons were overturned in Pocahontas County before the tornado moved into Palo Alto County. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Havelock | $25,000 | Barn doors were blown off. Also crop damage was reported. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Havelock | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Havelock | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Havelock | $7,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Havelock | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Havelock | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Havelock | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Havelock | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Havelock | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Havelock | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Havelock | - | Brief tornado that remained in open cropland. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating. |
| May 2023 | Heavy Rain | Havelock | - | Storm total of 2.96 inches. |
| August 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Havelock | - | County dispatch relayed reports of a funnel cloud near Haverlock. |
| July 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Havelock | - | Spencer Radio Group relayed public image of a funnel cloud south of Curlew. Time was estimated from radar. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Havelock | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.60 inches total from event spanning two observation periods. End time estimated from radar. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Havelock | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Havelock | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridotto | 1.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ware | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Plover | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Rubens Siding | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pocahontas | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Laurens | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Rolfe | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Westview | 10.7 miles | 8 |
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 Havelock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q590396 | The 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.




