Brewster, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brewster City. It lies in ZIP code area 56119. The Survey maps it on the Brewster quadrangle. 506 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,490 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrewster grew from 473 to 506 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 | 473 | |
| 2020 | 506 | +33 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Brewster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Worthington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brewster in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brewster | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage. Several houses were damaged by falling trees and wind blown tree debris. A roof was blown off a home northwest of Brewster. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Brewster | $10,000 | Hail damaged a few vehicles. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Brewster | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brewster | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Brewster | - | A truck driver reported nickel size hail, strong winds, and heavy rain. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Brewster | - | Rainfall of 4.50 inches was measured in a 5 hour period. Rainfall for 24 hours is 10 inches. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Brewster | - | Large hail caised an unknown amount of damage to vehicles. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brewster | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Brewster | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Brewster | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worthington | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Kinbrae | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Dundee | 10.2 miles | 8 | |
| Round Lake | 10.9 miles | 7 | |
| Org | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Reading | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Pfingsten | 13.1 miles | 7 | |
| Bigelow | 17.8 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 Brewster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1862901 | 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 640469. 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.



