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Beardsley, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Browns Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56211. The Survey maps it on the Beardsley quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Beardsley within Big Stone County

Population over time

2 figures

Beardsley fell from 233 to 216 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
2010233
2020216-17 (-7%)

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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beardsley between 2002 and 2019, burning about 2 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
Natural1
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
30 April 2019Natural1.4 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeMNBNR-FY19-WF-MURPHY WF
10 December 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeROBIN HOOD WPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beardsley: 1 producer. 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
Sibson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Big Stone County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beardsley in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 flood, 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
June 2008Flash FloodBeardsley$50,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-Seventy mph winds were estimated southeast of Beardsley with no damage reported.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-Many large tree branches were downed by sixty mph winds.
April 2023FloodBeardsley-no account filed
August 2022Funnel CloudBeardsley-no account filed
March 2019FloodBeardsley-no account filed
April 2019FloodBeardsley-no account filed
July 2015HailBeardsley-no account filed
July 2015HailBeardsley-no account filed
March 2011FloodBeardsley-no account filed
April 2011FloodBeardsley-no account filed
March 2010FloodBeardsley-no account filed
August 2010HailBeardsley-no account filed
June 2008FloodBeardsley-no account filed
June 2008HailBeardsley-no account filed
June 2007HailBeardsley-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-no account filed
July 2003HailBeardsley-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-no account filed
June 2002HailBeardsley-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBeardsley-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
Yankeetown4.9 miles8
Bonanza Grove7.8 miles8
Barry8.1 miles12
Foster10.0 miles8
Big Stone Colony12.8 miles8
Graceville14.7 miles8
Clinton16.2 miles7
Lagoona Beach17.9 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 BeardsleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2012960The 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 639789. 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.