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.
Population over time
2 figuresHalma 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 58 | -3 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Karlstad quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Halma quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
125 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 75 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 31 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benson Pit and Mill No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Eddy Jerome Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Halma Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lake Bronson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Loeffler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halma | $1,000 | Trees and branches were blown down. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Halma | - | The hail fell near the intersection of county road 7 and Minnesota 11. |
| August 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Halma | - | A persistent wall cloud with one or two brief funnels was reported. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halma | - | Several four to six inch diameter tree limbs were snapped. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halma | - | A few large tree branches and limbs were broken down. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Halma | - | 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 2005 | Hail | Halma | - | The largest hailstones fell a few minutes after the rain had passed. The large hail dented a vehicle and damaged shingles. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halma | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Halma | - | Hail was reported to be 3 inches deep. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Halma | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Halma | - | 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.
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 Halma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230869 | 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 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.






