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Barry, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Toqua Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56240. The Survey maps it on the Barry quadrangle. 16 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Barry within Big Stone County

Population over time

2 figures

Barry grew from 16 to 16 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
201016
2020160 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Barry between 2012 and 2019, burning about 266 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
30 April 2019Natural1.4 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeMNBNR-FY19-WF-MURPHY WF
16 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined265 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeHOFFMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Stone County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barry in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBarry-Storm chasers reported that 6 and 10 inch diameter tree branches snapped at the intersection of MN-28 and Big Stone County Road 59.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBarry-Trained spotters posted images of tree damage in the town of Barry.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBarry-A trained spotter reported a 61 mph wind gust from a rooftop anemometer at the intersection of MN-28 and Big Stone County Road 59. Nearby crop damage was also reported.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBarry-One and half miles west of Barry, numerous tree limbs up to 18 inches in diameter were downed and several smaller trees were snapped at the base.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Barry-A tornado was photographed south of Barry.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBarry-Eighty mph winds took out the wall of a machine shed along with damaging the roof.
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Barry-A thin rope tornado touched down briefly with no damage reported.
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Barry-A tornado touched down to the west of Barry for several minutes with no damage reported.
July 2024HailBarry-no account filed
August 2022Funnel CloudBarry-no account filed
October 1996Tornado (F0)Barry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Stone 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
Big Stone Colony4.9 miles8
Graceville6.7 miles8
Beardsley8.1 miles12
Clinton9.5 miles7
Yankeetown10.6 miles8
Bonanza Grove11.1 miles8
Foster11.6 miles8
Lagoona Beach13.8 miles7

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 BarryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346521The 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 639651. 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.