Amboy, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amboy City. It lies in ZIP code area 56010. The Survey maps it on the Amboy quadrangle. 535 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.
On record in Amboy
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
Sterling Congregational Churchlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresAmboy grew from 534 to 535 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 | 534 | |
| 2020 | 535 | +1 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Amboy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Amboy in 1999, burning about 1 acre 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 | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 October 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Windom Wetland Management District | STRING LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flood | Amboy | $2,100,000 | Numerous roads were closed due to excessive rainfall that fell on September 22nd and 23th. The major areal flooding didn't recede until late Saturday when most of the small streams and creeks had crested and only mainstem rivers remained flooded. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EF1) | Amboy | - | The tornado moved into Blue Earth County from Watonwan County. Based on multiple storm chaser videos, ground contact was evident most of the way, but not always, as there were two or three occasions when ground circulation was not evident for one or two minutes. But some storm chaser video showed it to be entirely from the same parent circulation, hence one tornado. The tornado hit several farms. At one farm, both garage doors on either side of a house were buckled in, multiple trees were snapped or large branches broken. Two farm outbuildings had their garage doors blown out. Some shingles were also removed. Dozens of trees nearby were blown over. A small trailer was blown over 100 yards. Another farm had two small outbuildings that were destroyed and trees down or broken. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 90 mph. This was based on drone video and ground-based photos provided by the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | Power lines were blown down on the east side of Amboy. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | A few trees were blown down near Amboy. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Amboy | - | Several sources indicated that torrential rainfall caused roads to flood across parts of southwest and western Blue Earth County during the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14th. Road closures included 128 and 25 along Perch Creek and the Watonwan River. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | Several large trees were snapped in half in the town of Amboy. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | Several large tree branches were blown down near Amboy, Minnesota. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | A large tree was uprooted near Amboy, Minnesota. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Amboy | - | A trained spotter measured 10.53 inches of rainfall between 6 pm and 8 am. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Amboy | - | Very weak EF-0 tornado briefly touched down at the edge of a corn field along Blue Earth County Road 147, one half mile West of U.S. Highway 169. Damage was confined to crops. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Amboy | - | A total of 1.8 inches of rain fell in one hour. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | Trees were downed and a roof was blown off. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Amboy | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Center | 4.4 miles | 6 | |
| Vernon Center | 5.1 miles | 6 | |
| Willow Creek | 6.0 miles | 6 | |
| Good Thunder | 9.4 miles | 12 | |
| Garden City | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Mapleton | 11.0 miles | 7 | |
| Beauford | 13.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rapidan | 15.0 miles | 12 |
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 Amboy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2233378 | 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 639321. 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.



