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Boyd, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ten Mile Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56218. The Survey maps it on the Boyd quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Boyd within Lac qui Parle County

Population over time

2 figures

Boyd fell from 175 to 141 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
2010175
2020141-34 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

38 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyd in 38 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 24 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2010FloodBoyd$515,000Several county roads became inundated due to flood waters along the Minnesota River.||Monetary costs were based on FEMA, State, and Local assistance which includes the following categories; debris removal, emergency protective measures, road systems and bridges, water control facilities, and utilities.
June 2002Tornado (F1)Boyd$10,000Tornado embedded within a rain-wrapped storm was videotaped as it crossed open country. The tornado continued into Yellow Medicine County.
May 2023HailBoyd-CoCoRaHS observer recorded quarter size hail 4 miles WSW of Watson, MN. This cell would continue northward across county lines into Chippewa County before weakening.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Several tops of pine trees were snapped off near Boyd.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBoyd-A large pine tree was blown down northeast of Boyd.
May 2022HailBoyd-There was a social media picture of 3 inch hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Large branches were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBoyd-A measured wind gust of 56 knots occurred northwest of Boyd.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBoyd-A measured wind gust of 54 knots was reported by a trained spotter with a private weather station northwest of Boyd.
July 2008HailBoyd-In addition winds estimated between 50 and 55 mph.
July 2007Funnel CloudBoyd-Funnel was spotted over the southwestern portion of the city.
June 2006HailBoyd-Some crops had significant damage. Siding dented. Some vehicles damaged.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Several trees down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBoyd-USPS truck blown over, several large trees toppled, some sheared off 10 to 12 feet from the ground, large area of corn stalks flattened.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Thin metal border on side of roof blown off house.
May 2005HailBoyd-A deputy sheriff reported nickel sized hail.
June 2005HailBoyd-Quarter sized hail dented cars and broke windows.
September 2005HailBoyd-Golf ball to baseball sized hail fell in and just east of Boyd.
September 2005Funnel CloudBoyd-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud with the storm that produced baseball sized hail just east of Boyd. This storm was the same one that dropped a tornado 8 miles northwest of Granite Falls less than one half hour later.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Few trees down, including one through roof of house.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Boyd-Minor crop damage.
May 2022HailBoyd-no account filed
May 2022HailBoyd-no account filed
August 2020HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2017HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2015HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2007HailBoyd-no account filed
May 2006HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2006HailBoyd-no account filed
May 2006HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2006HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2006HailBoyd-no account filed
July 2004HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2004HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2002HailBoyd-no account filed
June 2002HailBoyd-no account filed
May 2000HailBoyd-no account filed
May 2000HailBoyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lac qui Parle 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
Dawson9.9 miles8
Lac qui Parle10.5 miles9
Providence11.2 miles8
Cerro Gordo15.6 miles6
Madison19.1 miles6
Haydenville24.2 miles7
Louisburg26.1 miles6
Bellingham28.4 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 BoydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334000The 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 640405. 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.

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.