Bellingham, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bellingham City. It lies in ZIP code area 56212. The Survey maps it on the Bellingham quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBellingham fell from 168 to 148 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 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 148 | -20 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Bellingham quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bellingham in 2016, burning about 146 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 146 acres | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | HAPPIE WILDFIRE |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bellingham: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Granite Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| View Quarry | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellingham in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellingham | $10,000 | Several large trees and power lines were blown down around Bellingham. There was also damage to a local garage. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellingham | - | Multiple machine sheds were destroyed, and a large warehouse building in Louisburg lost much of its roof. Large grain bins at the Bellingham elevator were badly damaged, with two being blown off their foundations. Numerous trees were broken or uprooted. |
| June 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Bellingham | - | The funnel cloud was photographed. It was quite high-based. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellingham | - | There was a swath of large unknown size hail that covered the ground from 5 miles west of Bellingham, to the east side of town. Three inches of rain occurred in less than 2 hours, and the combination of hail, wind and heavy rainfall, caused significant crop damage. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellingham | - | Large tree branches and power outages occurred in the town of Bellingham. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Bellingham | - | The combination of large hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph, caused significant crop damage along the northern fringe of Lac Qui Parle County. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bellingham | - | Car window shattered by hail. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bellingham | - | Small branches felled. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Bellingham | - | Ditch along County Road 7 overflowed, covering southbound lane. Storm produced 3.3 inches rain in one hour. |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Bellingham | - | A storm chaser videotaped a brief touchdown of a weak tornado in an open field. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellingham | - | Sheds and bins destroyed. 30 trees blown over. Estimated windspeed. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellingham | - | Hog feeding building destroyed. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Bellingham | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Bellingham | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Bellingham | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Bellingham | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Bellingham | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosen | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Louisburg | 6.5 miles | 6 | |
| Haydenville | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Nassau | 9.4 miles | 8 | |
| Madison | 10.0 miles | 6 | |
| Marietta | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Cerro Gordo | 14.7 miles | 6 | |
| Dawson | 18.7 miles | 8 |
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 Bellingham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334625 | 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 639896. 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.




