BlockAda, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ada City. It lies in ZIP code area 56510. The Survey maps it on the Ada quadrangle. 1,740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.
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On record in Ada
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Ada Village Halllisted 1998
Congregational Church of Adalisted 1984
Norman County Courthouselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresAda grew from 1,707 to 1,740 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 | 1,707 | |
| 2020 | 1,740 | +33 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1924 USGS Ada quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ada quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
47 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ada in 47 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 26 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Ada | $1,000,000 | Numerous county and township roads were washed out from the heavy rain. Street flooding was reported in both Ada and Gary. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $200,000 | Power was out in the Ada area with damaged transformers and trees down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $50,000 | The strong wind peeled off the roof on the city's public works building. Debris from the falling roof damaged 4 vehicles inside. Another city building was also damaged, as well as many trees around town. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $20,000 | Corn fields were churned and flattened by strong winds. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Ada | $20,000 | A roof was torn off a farm building and scattered in nearby trees. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $20,000 | Large branches were blown down in Ada. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Ada | $5,000 | Basement flooding was reported. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $3,000 | Trees were blown down and a window was blown out. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $3,000 | Trees were blown down in Ada. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $2,000 | Several large trees were uprooted due to the strong wind. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $500 | Several trees were knocked down near Ada. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | $500 | Trees were blown over in Ada. A power pole was also blown over west of town, knocking out power to the western half of the county for 7 hours. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Measured gust at NDAWN mesonet station 210019 1 north Ada MN. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Measured gust at the Ada NDAWN 10 foot sensor. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Tree branches and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Strong winds ripped pieces of siding off a house. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | The wind gust was measured by the Ada NDAWN mesonet station. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | The wind gust was measured at the Ada NDAWN mesonet site. Several large tree branches and limbs were blown down across northern McDonaldsville Township and within the town of Ada. Southeast of Ada, the roof panels were peeled of a large 60 by 100 foot steel clad shop, causing the interior rafters to collapse. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Several large trees and tree branches were blown down by the wind. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | Numerous trees were blown down in Ada. Some trees blocked roads or streets. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | A 100 foot tall cottonwood tree three feet wide at the base was blown down by downburst wind. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | A 65 mph wind gust was measured by a MNDOT RWIS near Ada. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Ada | - | Street flooding was reported in Ada. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | A 75 mph wind gust was reported, which caused some roof damage. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | A 64 mph wind gust was measured at a Minnesota DOT RWIS site. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ada | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ada | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Ada | - | 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 Ada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1915560 | 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 639200. 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.
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.