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.
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
Alberta Teachers Houselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresAlberta 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 103 | |
| 2020 | 94 | -9 (-9%) |
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.
- 1910 USGS Chokio quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Chokio quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Alberta quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | WAGNER WPA |
| 25 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | PRAIRIE WPA |
| 1 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | MOSQUITO RANCH WPA |
| 1 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | GREINER WPA |
| 27 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | PEPPERTON WPA |
| 24 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | ROBINHOOD |
| 22 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | STIMMLER |
| 20 November 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | LAWRENCE WPA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | $50,000 | A grain silo was destroyed south of Alberta. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Alberta | $40,000 | Numerous 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | $25,000 | A large storage shed was destroyed near Alberta along with a few large trees blown down. An outbuilding was blown about 100 yards. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | $10,000 | Grain bin dented, roof off pole barn. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Alberta | - | Training thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall which led to multiple roads being under water in Alberta. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Alberta | - | Crop damage was reported in a two mile swath along County Road 8 due to large hail. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Alberta | - | Hail was 1.75 thick. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Alberta | - | Due to rapid snow melt and locally heavy rainfall, several roads were closed due to flood waters. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | - | Pine trees up to 70 feet tall were downed. Tin and shingles were blown off a building. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | - | Structural damage just south of Lake Hattie. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alberta | - | 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 Alberta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1965138 | 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 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.





