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Alberta, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56207. The Survey maps it on the Alberta quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Alberta within Stevens County

On record in Alberta

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Alberta fell from 103 to 94 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
2010103
202094-9 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Alberta between 1993 and 2017, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeWAGNER WPA
25 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugePRAIRIE WPA
1 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeMOSQUITO RANCH WPA
1 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeGREINER WPA
27 April 2006Debris and open burning12 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugePEPPERTON WPA
24 April 1999Debris and open burning35 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeROBINHOOD
22 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeSTIMMLER
20 November 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeLAWRENCE WPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alberta in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAlberta$50,000A grain silo was destroyed south of Alberta.
March 2010FloodAlberta$40,000Numerous counties roads were flooded from snow melt and associated runoff along several tributaries of the Minnesota River, in Stevens County. Monetary costs were based on FEMA, State, and Local assistance which includes the following categories; debris removal, emergency protective measures, and road systems and bridges.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAlberta$25,000A large storage shed was destroyed near Alberta along with a few large trees blown down. An outbuilding was blown about 100 yards.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAlberta$10,000Grain bin dented, roof off pole barn.
July 2025Flash FloodAlberta-Training thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall which led to multiple roads being under water in Alberta.
June 2013HailAlberta-Crop damage was reported in a two mile swath along County Road 8 due to large hail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAlberta-A 71 mph wind gust was measured by a mobile weather sensor. In the vicinity of the wind gust, several large tree limbs were blown off.
August 2013HailAlberta-Hail was 1.75 thick.
March 2009FloodAlberta-Due to rapid snow melt and locally heavy rainfall, several roads were closed due to flood waters.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindAlberta-Pine trees up to 70 feet tall were downed. Tin and shingles were blown off a building.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindAlberta-Structural damage just south of Lake Hattie. Estimated windspeed.
July 2025HailAlberta-no account filed
July 2025HailAlberta-no account filed
May 2022HailAlberta-no account filed
June 2015HailAlberta-no account filed
June 2013HailAlberta-no account filed
July 2006HailAlberta-no account filed
May 1996HailAlberta-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindAlberta-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindAlberta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Chokio6.7 miles9
Morris7.1 miles12
Donnelly8.3 miles9
Hancock14.3 miles8

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 AlbertaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1965138The 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 639249. 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.