Belgrade, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Belgrade City. It lies in ZIP code area 56312. The Survey maps it on the Belgrade quadrangle. 738 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.
On record in Belgrade
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 1 record
Christopher Borgerding Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresBelgrade fell from 740 to 738 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 | 740 | |
| 2020 | 738 | -2 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Belgrade quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
125 words on this townshipHistory of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Belgrade City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The Belgrade Tribune, published by W. P. Lemmer, is the representative of the southwestern section of the county. It is in its nineteenth year, according to the volume number, but the writer has been unable to obtain any information regarding its history. The Tribune of today is a well-edited and enterprising paper.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Belgrade between 2000 and 2006, burning about 190 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 October 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 January 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 Belgrade: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
28 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belgrade in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Fire department reported winds near 70 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | There was a delayed report that a tarp was needed to cover a damaged roof on a local nursing home. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Belgrade | - | The hail size was based on a picture on social media. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Several trees were blown down near Belgrade. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Belgrade | - | Several storm chasers documented a tornado that started in Belgrade. It knocked over several trees and numerous large branches in town, and took a few shingles and some soffit off a house. It then moved north-northeast out of town, across open fields, and dissipated. |
| September 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Belgrade | - | A tornado knocked down several dozen trees, with some landing on cars and sheds. One tree landed on a mobile home. The tornado also destroyed a storage building (the building had been moved from another location and was still in the process of being made ready for business when the tornado came and blew it across the road). |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Dozens and possibly more than 100 trees were felled in Belgrade, just to the south of a tornado. A storm survey determined this was due to rear flank downdraft winds associated with the Belgrade tornado. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | A few dozen trees were damaged, the roof of an open sided shed was blown off, and several corn fields were damaged. This area may have been an earlier beginning point of the Belgrade tornado, but damage was too scant to be certain, and therefore this damage has been listed as thunderstorm wind damage. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Belgrade | - | A trained spotter measured 4.00 inches of rainfall near Belgrade. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Several one to three foot diameter trees were blown down, and some damaged area power lines. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Several large trees were blown down from north of Belgrade, to Elrosa, Minnesota. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Belgrade | - | Hail reported at Stearns and Kandiyohi County line along Highway 71 and County Road 198. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Six to eight inch diameter tree limbs severed. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Measured by MNDOT sensor along Highway 55. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Belgrade | - | Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud at the intersection of county roads 4 and 59. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Numerous trees down in Belgrade. Gust measured by MNDOT Road Weather System 3 ESE Belgrade; observation indicated the severe wind lasted 10 minutes. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Belgrade | - | Ground turned white. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belgrade | - | Trees and power lines toppled. |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Belgrade | - | Roof partially off small cafe. Siding peeled off and lumber tossed around a lumber yard. Large steel tank blown off trailer. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Belgrade | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Belgrade | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgeville | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Brooten | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Elrosa | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Hill | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Lake Henry | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| Padua | 11.5 miles | 8 | |
| Greenwald | 12.8 miles | 8 | |
| Meire Grove | 14.1 miles | 10 |
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 Belgrade | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q581832 | 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 639878. 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.




