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Beaver Creek, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beaver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56116. The Survey maps it on the Hills quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.

Beaver Creek within Rock County

On record in Beaver Creek

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Beaver Creek fell from 297 to 280 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
2010297
2020280-17 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Beaver Creek in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionINC # 105 9/29/2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock County

Storms near this place

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Creek in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek$100,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed two empty grain bins which each had a 150 thousand bushel capacity. The winds also blew down power lines, resulting in a power outage, and caused widespread tree damage, including several trees uprooted or blown down. Tree debris blocked several city streets. The winds also damaged crops, especially corn, but the amount of crop damage could not be determined.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek$20,000Thunderstorm winds overturned a semi truck on State Highway 23.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Beaver Creek$5,000A weak tornado knocked the chimney off a roof. Debris from the chimney damaged a truck and lawn chairs.
April 2025HailBeaver Creek-A very non-uniform hailstone measured at 2.8 inches at its widest.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured as high as 70 mph at the Minnesota Department of Transportation site near Beaver Creek.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down a large rotten tree in town and also some small branches on other trees.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-The roof on a cattle barn was blown off by thunderstorm wind gusts. Several surrounding tree limbs from 6 to 10 inches in diameter were also broken.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 58 mph were measured at the Minnesota Road Weather Information System site near Beaver Creek.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-A thunderstorm wind gust of 72 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN005 1 mile west-southwest Beaver Creek. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm winds downed a concrete silo, damaged numerous outbuildings, and snapped several trees.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site 1 mile west-southwest of Beaver Creek.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Roof panels were torn off a hog barn by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Concrete silo collapsed due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-A thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph was measured by the Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN005 1 mile west-southwest of Beaver Creek.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-An extended period of thunderstorm wind gusts of 58 mph or greater was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN006 1 mile west-southwest of Beaver Creek. A peak wind gust of 83 mph occurred at 1600CST. In addition, multiple large tree branches were downed in the city of Beaver Creek.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by Minnesota RWIS site MN006 located 1 mile west southwest of Beaver Creek. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm wind gust measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN006.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-RWIS site along Interstate 90 measured wind gust.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Measured by MNDOT rwis station.
March 2018FloodBeaver Creek-Runoff from heavy rain and snow melt caused inundation of low-lying stretches of township roads near 50th Avenue and 91st Street.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Remote Minnesota DOT sensor at Beaver Creek.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Measured at Minnesota Department of Transportation's RWIS station at Beaver Creek.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2014Funnel CloudBeaver Creek-A funnel cloud appeared to be moving to the southeast.
June 2014Flash FloodBeaver Creek-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of Interstate 90 by Beaver Creek and of several county roads.
June 2001HailBeaver Creek-Large hail caused considerable damage to crops. Some soybean crops were destroyed. Corn crops affected were expected to recover, according to the county extension agent, because the crops were young, with the growing point still below the ground and able to produce new stalks. Therefore, the amount of crop damage was not known.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-Thunderstorm winds of unknown speed blew down trees.
May 1993Tornado (F1)Beaver Creek-A tornado traveled along an intermittent path west of the town of Beaver Creek and damaged or destroyed several buildings and downed several trees.
April 2025HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
April 2025HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2016HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2016HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
June 2014Funnel CloudBeaver Creek-no account filed
May 2014HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2013Funnel CloudBeaver Creek-no account filed
May 2012HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
May 2012HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
October 2007HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
June 2006HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
November 2005HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeaver Creek-no account filed
September 2002HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
April 2002HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
June 2001HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 2000HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 1996HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
July 1995HailBeaver Creek-no account filed
June 1994HailBeaver Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock 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
Manley3.9 miles8
Hills5.9 miles8
Bruce6.6 miles8
Luverne8.5 miles8
Steen8.7 miles8
Ash Creek10.4 miles8
Hardwick14.1 miles7
Kanaranzi14.6 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 Beaver CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334540The 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 639816. 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.