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Halma, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Norway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56729. The Survey maps it on the Halma quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Halma within Kittson County

Population over time

2 figures

Halma fell from 61 to 58 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
201061
202058-3 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Halma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,019 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 75 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
Arson/incendiarism75
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2006Natural10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 1998Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burning31 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Halma: 5 producers. All of them 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
Benson Pit and Mill No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eddy Jerome Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Halma Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Bronson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Loeffler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kittson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halma in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 16 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHalma$1,000Trees and branches were blown down.
August 2015HailHalma-The hail fell near the intersection of county road 7 and Minnesota 11.
August 2015Funnel CloudHalma-A persistent wall cloud with one or two brief funnels was reported.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHalma-Several four to six inch diameter tree limbs were snapped.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHalma-A few large tree branches and limbs were broken down.
July 2005HailHalma-The hail was reported by a Sheriff's Deputy 6 miles north and 7 miles west of Karlstad. Dime to golfball sized hail fell.
July 2005HailHalma-The largest hailstones fell a few minutes after the rain had passed. The large hail dented a vehicle and damaged shingles.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHalma-Large tree branches were blown down.
June 1998HailHalma-Hail was reported to be 3 inches deep.
June 2020HailHalma-no account filed
June 2020HailHalma-no account filed
July 2017HailHalma-no account filed
August 2016HailHalma-no account filed
August 2013HailHalma-no account filed
July 2011HailHalma-no account filed
June 2006HailHalma-no account filed
June 2000HailHalma-no account filed
June 1999HailHalma-no account filed
June 1998HailHalma-no account filed
June 1998HailHalma-no account filed
July 1996HailHalma-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
Lake Bronson6.1 miles10
Deerwood7.1 miles10
Karlstad7.2 miles10
Enok8.4 miles11
Pelan11.0 miles10
Kennedy16.4 miles11
Donaldson16.9 miles11
Lancaster17.4 miles11

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 HalmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230869The 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 644586. 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.