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Hallock, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hallock City. It lies in ZIP code area 56728. It stands on Middle Branch Two Rivers. The Survey maps it on the Hallock quadrangle. 906 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Hallock within Kittson County

Population over time

2 figures

Hallock fell from 981 to 906 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
2010981
2020906-75 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hallock between 1995 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2015Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2012Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2014Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittson County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallock in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 8 injuries. 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
July 1995Tornado (F1)Hallock8 hurt, $3,000,000Several funnel clouds were sighted in the same area, northwest of Hallock. After several brief touchdowns, one tornado remained on the ground one mile northwest of Hallock and traveled south to southeast to three miles east of the town of Kennedy. The tornado collapsed the roof of the grandstands at the Kittson County Fairgrounds, where 800 people had been several minutes earlier. Many homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed in Hallock. Path length, width and property damage were estimated.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHallock$500A tree was blown down.
July 2017HailHallock-The hail varied in size.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindHallock-Significant damage was reported to a barn, steel pole shed, and numerous trees at a farmstead about three miles east of Northcote.
September 2014HailHallock-Tennis ball sized hail fell after a tornado passed off to the east.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHallock-At least one large oak tree and several large tree branches were blown down in and near Hallock.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHallock-Significant tree damage occurred from strong straight line winds.
June 2005Funnel CloudHallock-A persistent wall cloud with pendant funnel cloud was observed moving east-southeast.
June 2005Flash FloodHallock-Fields were flooded near highway 175 and county road 16.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHallock-Large trees were blown down in Hallock and the surrounding area.
August 2004Flash FloodHallock-Fields and a farmyard were flooded. Water flowed across the farmyard access road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHallock-6 inch diameter trees were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHallock-Many trees and branches were blown down across town. Shingles were torn off roofs and power poles were snapped. Some metal roofs, including the lumberyard storage building, were damaged in town. Some newly laid sod was blown onto a street. One tree fell on a garage and another fell on a pickup in the park.
August 2000FloodHallock-Nearly three inches of rain fell at Hallock, MN, which flooded streets and a local park.
June 1994Tornado (F0)Hallock-A tornado touched down briefly on a field before dissipating.
July 2006HailHallock-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudHallock-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHallock-no account filed
May 2004HailHallock-no account filed
July 2002HailHallock-no account filed
July 2001HailHallock-no account filed
June 2000HailHallock-no account filed
May 2000HailHallock-no account filed
June 1999HailHallock-no account filed
June 1999HailHallock-no account filed
June 1998HailHallock-no account filed
June 1998HailHallock-no account filed
August 1998HailHallock-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHallock-no account filed
August 1995Tornado (F0)Hallock-no account filed
August 1995HailHallock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittson 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
Viking Land Terrace0.4 miles11
Chatham (historical)4.3 miles11
Northcote5.7 miles13
Mattson8.9 miles12
Kennedy9.4 miles11
Lancaster9.5 miles11
Orleans10.5 miles11
Humboldt12.8 miles13

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 HallockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1913397The 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 644582. 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.

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.