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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.

Alvarado within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Alvarado 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.

YearPeople Change
2010363
2020388+25 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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

7 since 1995

Regional 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
27 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2004Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 1995Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

24 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2014Flash FloodAlvarado$50,000Street and basement flooding was reported.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAlvarado$1,000Several power poles were damaged by the wind.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-Measured wind gust on Alvarado 4N NDAWN surface sensor.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-Report of tree damage across town in Alvarado. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023FloodAlvarado-Alvarado gage, on the Snake River. Crested at 107.30 ft on April 19th at 16:30.
July 2021HailAlvarado-Received a public report of up to golf ball sized hail.
June 2020HailAlvarado-Nickel to half dollar sized hail fell.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-Numerous cottonwood and ash trees were snapped or uprooted around town.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-Several trees were blown down and a trampoline was wrapped around a tree.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-A tree was snapped in two.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-A river gaging station on the highway 1 bridge was damaged by the wind. The antenna had missing and bent tines.
June 2010HailAlvarado-The large hail was seen by a storm damage team.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlvarado-Several 6 inch diameter tree limbs were broken off around town.
August 2004HailAlvarado-The hail covered the ground.
September 2019HailAlvarado-no account filed
July 2017HailAlvarado-no account filed
July 2017HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2015HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2015HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2015HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2010HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2005HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2000HailAlvarado-no account filed
June 2000HailAlvarado-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
March5.2 miles10
Oslo7.2 miles10
Big Woods10.0 miles9
Luna11.5 miles11
Warren11.8 miles10
Argyle13.3 miles11
Stephen18.8 miles11
Valley Court18.8 miles11

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 AlvaradoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1971544The 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.