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.
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
Barnesville City Hall and Jaillisted 1980
Patterson-Hernandez Houselisted 1980
Hannah C. and Peter E. Thompson Houselisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresBarnesville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,563 | |
| 2020 | 2,759 | +196 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1919 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | HAUGRUD WF |
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hollands Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mallinger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Quinnild Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Quinnild Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
42 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Lightning | Barnesville | $250,000 | Lightning ignited a house fire, destroying the home. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | $10,000 | A tree was blown over onto a house. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Barnesville | $5,000 | Nearly three inches of rain fell, causing flooding in low spots. Local sloughs and creeks also filled with water and overspilled their banks. |
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Barnesville | $3,000 | Several bouts of heavy rainfall flooded city streets. Water was reported to be over a foot deep in some areas. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Barnesville | $2,000 | Fields and farm access roads were flooded near Stoney Creek and across northern Humboldt and southern Skree townships. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | $500 | Large branches were blown down. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Barnesville | - | Hail reported via ice-chip research team. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Barnesville | - | Reported via ice-chip research team. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Barnesville | - | Broadcast Media relays report of 1.75-inch hail in Barnesville. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | A peak wind of 58 mph was measured at a personal weather station. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Peak wind gust of 67 mph measured at a personal weather station. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Large branches were blown down in a farm yard. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | The wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Tree were snapped and uprooted around Barnesville. A barn was partially blown off its foundation and collapsed. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | The strong winds were measured by a personal weather station. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Six to seven trees were blown down, the largest one had a 9 inch diameter. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | 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 2013 | Tornado (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 2012 | Hail | Barnesville | - | The hail ranged from dime to golfball size. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | A large tree was blown down next to the firehouse. A lot of smaller branches were also blown off trees around town. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | A small ride at the Clay County fair was damaged due to strong winds. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Trees were blown down in a shelterbelt near the Clay and Wilkin County line. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Barnesville | - | [See the event description under the Lawndale, Wilkin county, flash flood event.] |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Barnesville | - | A highway underpass was flooded. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnesville | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a barn and a shed was destroyed. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Barnesville | - | 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 Barnesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346640 | 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 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.






