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Appleton, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Appleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56208. The Survey maps it on the Appleton quadrangle. 1,392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Appleton within Swift County

On record in Appleton

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Appleton fell from 1,412 to 1,392 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
20101,412
20201,392-20 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Appleton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Natural1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMorris National Wildlife RefugeSPRING LAKE
14 May 2007Other causes43 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeUNNAMED
13 May 2007Natural150 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesSECTION 32
8 November 2020Arson/incendiarism27 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Swift County

Storms near this place

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appleton in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 15 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAppleton$2,000A few large tree branches and a power line were blown down in the city of Appleton.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAppleton-A survey team viewed the damage in Appleton but was unable to determine whether it was due to a downburst or tornado. Several dozen trees were broken.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Appleton-A tornado developed about 3 miles north-northwest of Milan in Chippewa County and then moved into Swift County where it uprooted a number of trees and significantly damaged farm outbuildings. Maximum winds for the Swift County portion were estimated at 90 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Several windows broken.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Many large trees downed and a semi-truck blown over.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Tree downed in town.
July 2006Flash FloodAppleton-Emergency Manager reported that nearly five inches of rain fell in Appleton. Cars flooded up to their hoods at the underpass near the intersection of Highways 59 and 119. Two feet of water on Main Street, with water flowing into a building. Also reported by trained spotter and law enforcement official.
June 2005Funnel CloudAppleton-Law enforcement reported numerous funnel clouds in and around Appleton. One particular sighting was along Highway 119 about 4.5 miles north of town.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAppleton-A cattle shed lost most of its roof at a farm along Highway 12 about 1 mile west of the Highway 5 intersection in Shible Township, Section 15. A machine shed was nearly demolished nearby.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAppleton-The roof of three sheds and a hog barn were blown off at a farm on the south side of Lake Oliver near 20th Street NW in Hegbert Township, Section 35. A two by four was blown into the side of a farmhouse and windows were broken by flying debris. Trees were also downed on the property.
July 2003HailAppleton-Corn stripped.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Minor damage to outbuildings.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Car blown off road.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Few trees toppled.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Large branches down partially blocking street. Estimated windspeed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Estimated winds. Trees felled, one onto a car.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAppleton-Few trees down. Winds estimated.
July 1995HailAppleton-One and three-quarters inch hail swath occurred from two miles west of Appleton to four miles north of Appleton resulting in extensive crop damage. Hail occurred for 30 minutes.
July 2017HailAppleton-no account filed
July 2017HailAppleton-no account filed
June 2011HailAppleton-no account filed
May 2008HailAppleton-no account filed
June 2007HailAppleton-no account filed
June 2005HailAppleton-no account filed
June 2004HailAppleton-no account filed
June 2004HailAppleton-no account filed
June 2002HailAppleton-no account filed
August 1999HailAppleton-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudAppleton-no account filed
June 1998HailAppleton-no account filed
July 1997HailAppleton-no account filed
July 1997HailAppleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Swift 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
Holloway6.9 miles8
Fairfield13.1 miles9
Danvers15.4 miles8
Clontarf21.9 miles8
Benson23.7 miles8
De Graff29.6 miles8
Murdock33.3 miles10
Swift Falls34.5 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 AppletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2172289The 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 639416. 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.