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Huntington, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ellsworth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51334. The Survey maps it on the Estherville quadrangle. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Huntington 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Huntington: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Estherville City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frye PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Walterman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

19 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington in 19 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 17 flood, 2 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
June 2011FloodHuntington$250,000no account filed
June 2010FloodHuntington$250,000no account filed
March 2011FloodHuntington$100,000no account filed
May 2011FloodHuntington$100,000no account filed
March 2010FloodHuntington$100,000no account filed
September 2010FloodHuntington$100,000no account filed
June 2011FloodHuntington$50,000no account filed
April 2010FloodHuntington$50,000no account filed
July 2010FloodHuntington$50,000no account filed
June 2008FloodHuntington$50,000no account filed
October 2010FloodHuntington$25,000no account filed
May 2012FloodHuntington$15,000no account filed
July 2011FloodHuntington$10,000no account filed
April 2011FloodHuntington$10,000no account filed
February 2011FloodHuntington$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailHuntington$2,000A non-rotating wall cloud moved overhead at 1910 CST.
March 2019FloodHuntington-Iowa DOT reported Iowa 4 closed between Wallingford in Emmet County and Graettinger in Palo Alto County due to water over the road.
June 2016HailHuntington-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2011FloodHuntington-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Estherville6.6 miles7
Gruver8.2 miles7
Dolliver9.0 miles7
Maple Hill11.2 miles7
Raleigh11.3 miles7
Wallingford11.9 miles7
Gridley13.2 miles7
Bubona (historical)13.3 miles7

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 HuntingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892572The 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 457730. 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.