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.
Population over time
2 figuresHallock 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 981 | |
| 2020 | 906 | -75 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1941 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Hallock | 8 hurt, $3,000,000 | Several 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | $500 | A tree was blown down. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Hallock | - | The hail varied in size. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | Significant damage was reported to a barn, steel pole shed, and numerous trees at a farmstead about three miles east of Northcote. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Hallock | - | Tennis ball sized hail fell after a tornado passed off to the east. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | At least one large oak tree and several large tree branches were blown down in and near Hallock. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | Significant tree damage occurred from strong straight line winds. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Hallock | - | A persistent wall cloud with pendant funnel cloud was observed moving east-southeast. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Hallock | - | Fields were flooded near highway 175 and county road 16. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | Large trees were blown down in Hallock and the surrounding area. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Hallock | - | Fields and a farmyard were flooded. Water flowed across the farmyard access road. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | 6 inch diameter trees were blown down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | 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 2000 | Flood | Hallock | - | Nearly three inches of rain fell at Hallock, MN, which flooded streets and a local park. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Hallock | - | A tornado touched down briefly on a field before dissipating. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Hallock | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Hallock | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viking Land Terrace | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Chatham (historical) | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Northcote | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Mattson | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Kennedy | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Lancaster | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Orleans | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Humboldt | 12.8 miles | 13 |
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 Hallock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1913397 | 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 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.






