Huntley, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Verona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56039. The Survey maps it on the Huntley quadrangle. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Huntley within Faribault 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.

1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Huntley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Verona township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Faribault County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Year 1879 : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1896 - Verona Township

Interesting Incidents

At the time of the Ink-pe-du-ta massacre, in the spring of 1857, and again at the time of the Sioux massacre, in August, 1862, this town was almost completely depopulated, for a short time, and, although no attack was made on the people of the town, at either time, yet prudence dictated the abandonment of the town for the time be- ing.

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In the county-history sources

2,593 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Verona Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Verona Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Huntley: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Faribault County Pits	Clay	Producer
Hodgman Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hodgman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hodgman Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
W Hodgman & Sons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
W Hodgman & Sons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Faribault County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntley in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2018	Hail	Huntley	-	A swath of large hail, up to golf ball size, occurred near Truman, then southeast to west of Blue Earth. The local emergency management had reports of shredded crops due to the intense amount and wind associated with the hail.
July 2018	Hail	Huntley	-	A swath of very large hail, up to baseball size, occurred from south of Huntley, southeast to south-southeast of Blue Earth. Crops were reported shredded in this area due to the extremely large hail and wind. The COOP observer in Blue Earth reported up to quarter size hail during this time period.
September 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Huntley	-	This is the continuation of the Martin County tornado that continued into Faribault County before dissipating in a field approximately 1.2 miles east of the county line. Most of the damage was associated with downed trees and power lines. Maximum width was 70 yards with an EF0 rating based on damage.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Huntley	-	Rainfall amounts were reported around 5.50 inches north of Huntley, and the far northwest corner of Faribault County. Flooding was observed in this area with rapid rises along the Blue Earth River.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntley	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Huntley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faribault 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Winnebago	4.5 miles	7
Guckeen	5.6 miles	7
Riverside Heights	8.2 miles	7
Blue Earth	9.7 miles	7
Delavan	11.8 miles	6
Pilot Grove	14.0 miles	6
Marna	15.0 miles	6
Elmore	17.5 miles	6

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 Huntley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5945594	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 645303. 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.