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Barnesville, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Barnesville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56514. The Survey maps it on the Barnesville quadrangle. 2,759 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Barnesville within Clay County

On record in Barnesville

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Barnesville grew from 2,563 to 2,759 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
20102,563
20202,759+196 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Barnesville in 2015, burning about 21 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/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
18 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictHAUGRUD WF

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Barnesville: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hollands PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mallinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quinnild Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quinnild Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnesville in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 6 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020LightningBarnesville$250,000Lightning ignited a house fire, destroying the home.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBarnesville$50,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBarnesville$10,000A tree was blown over onto a house.
July 2010Flash FloodBarnesville$5,000Nearly three inches of rain fell, causing flooding in low spots. Local sloughs and creeks also filled with water and overspilled their banks.
September 2014Flash FloodBarnesville$3,000Several bouts of heavy rainfall flooded city streets. Water was reported to be over a foot deep in some areas.
July 2016Flash FloodBarnesville$2,000Fields and farm access roads were flooded near Stoney Creek and across northern Humboldt and southern Skree townships.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBarnesville$500Large branches were blown down.
June 2025HailBarnesville-Hail reported via ice-chip research team.
June 2025HailBarnesville-Reported via ice-chip research team.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Delayed report from social media; shed flipped over fence. Time estimated based on radar and surrounding obs with an RWIS gusting to 57 mph 10 minutes later about 13 miles ESE as the gust front hit that location.
September 2023HailBarnesville-Broadcast Media relays report of 1.75-inch hail in Barnesville.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-A peak wind of 58 mph was measured at a personal weather station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Peak wind gust of 67 mph measured at a personal weather station.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Received reports from two different wind sensors in the Barnesville area with wind gusts to 60 mph between 0136 and 0144 CDT. A few large tree branches were broken down around town as reported by a trained spotter.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Large tree branches were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Large branches were blown down in a farm yard.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-The wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Tree were snapped and uprooted around Barnesville. A barn was partially blown off its foundation and collapsed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-The strong winds were measured by a personal weather station.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Six to seven trees were blown down, the largest one had a 9 inch diameter.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Several twelve inch diameter poplar trees and an eighteen inch diameter cottonwood tree were snapped in shelterbelts near the Clay and Wilkin county line.
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Barnesville-The tornado touched down about a mile west of the airport and tracked to the Interstate 94 exit north of town by 2230 CST. The tornado continued to about four miles northeast of town, a track length of about seven miles. The tornado was likely wrapped in heavy rain during portions of this track. One livestock loafing shed was lifted and collapsed and several trees were knocked down. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
July 2012HailBarnesville-The hail ranged from dime to golfball size.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-A large tree was blown down next to the firehouse. A lot of smaller branches were also blown off trees around town.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-A small ride at the Clay County fair was damaged due to strong winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Trees were blown down in a shelterbelt near the Clay and Wilkin County line.
May 2004Flash FloodBarnesville-[See the event description under the Lawndale, Wilkin county, flash flood event.]
July 2002Flash FloodBarnesville-A highway underpass was flooded.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBarnesville-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a barn and a shed was destroyed.
July 2022HailBarnesville-no account filed
September 2014HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
May 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
August 2004HailBarnesville-no account filed
August 2002HailBarnesville-no account filed
April 2001Flash FloodBarnesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Downer7.9 miles9
Baker8.2 miles24
Tansem9.9 miles11
Rollag11.4 miles11
Muskoda14.5 miles9
Sabin15.2 miles24
Hawley16.7 miles8
Comstock17.4 miles22

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 BarnesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346640The 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 639637. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.