Alvarado, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Alvarado City. It lies in ZIP code area 56710. The Survey maps it on the Alvarado quadrangle. 388 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAlvarado grew from 363 to 388 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 | 363 | |
| 2020 | 388 | +25 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1918 USGS Warren quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Warren quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Alvarado quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Alvarado between 1995 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvarado in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Alvarado | $50,000 | Street and basement flooding was reported. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | $1,000 | Several power poles were damaged by the wind. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | Measured wind gust on Alvarado 4N NDAWN surface sensor. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | Report of tree damage across town in Alvarado. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Alvarado | - | Alvarado gage, on the Snake River. Crested at 107.30 ft on April 19th at 16:30. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Alvarado | - | Received a public report of up to golf ball sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Alvarado | - | Nickel to half dollar sized hail fell. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | Numerous cottonwood and ash trees were snapped or uprooted around town. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | Several trees were blown down and a trampoline was wrapped around a tree. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | A tree was snapped in two. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | A river gaging station on the highway 1 bridge was damaged by the wind. The antenna had missing and bent tines. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Alvarado | - | The large hail was seen by a storm damage team. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvarado | - | Several 6 inch diameter tree limbs were broken off around town. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Alvarado | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Alvarado | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Alvarado | - | 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 Alvarado | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1971544 | 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 639313. 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.








