Haverhill, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50120. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.
On record in Haverhill
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 1 record
Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and Houselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresHaverhill fell from 173 to 165 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 | 173 | |
| 2020 | 165 | -8 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Laurel quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grinnell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Haverhill between 2009 and 2011, burning about 72 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 | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2919 LAFAYETTE AVE, MELBOURNE, IA |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2081 265TH ST., MELBOURNE, IA |
| 10 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2534 STARRY GROVE ROAD, MARSHALLTOWN, IA 50158, IO |
| 5 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2417 MARSH AVE, IA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Haverhill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Flagstone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haverhill in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Haverhill | $100,000 | Marshall County Sheriff reports that Highway 14 remained closed due to flooding north of Marshalltown. Highway 330 south of Albion is also closed. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haverhill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haverhill | $5,000 | Sustained winds of 65 MPH measured with an anemometer. Penny size hail also reported. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haverhill | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Haverhill | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Haverhill | - | Social media picture of quarter sized hail. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Haverhill | - | Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2.90 inches. |
| October 1998 | Hail | Haverhill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Van Cleve | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Luray | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| State Center Junction | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Laurel | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Ferguson | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Wolf Lake Addition | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| LaMoille | 7.2 miles | 9 |
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 Haverhill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1932044 | 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 457323. 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.





