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.
Population over time
2 figuresBeardsley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 233 | |
| 2020 | 216 | -17 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1916 USGS Beardsley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Beardsley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Beardsley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2019 | Natural | 1.4 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | MNBNR-FY19-WF-MURPHY WF |
| 10 December 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | ROBIN HOOD WPA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sibson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Beardsley | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated southeast of Beardsley with no damage reported. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | Many large tree branches were downed by sixty mph winds. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flood | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beardsley | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yankeetown | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Bonanza Grove | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Barry | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Foster | 10.0 miles | 8 | |
| Big Stone Colony | 12.8 miles | 8 | |
| Graceville | 14.7 miles | 8 | |
| Clinton | 16.2 miles | 7 | |
| Lagoona Beach | 17.9 miles | 7 |
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 Beardsley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2012960 | 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 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.





