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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.

Brewster within Nobles County

Population over time

2 figures

Brewster 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.

YearPeople Change
2010473
2020506+33 (+7%)

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.

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBrewster$100,000Thunderstorm 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 1995HailBrewster$10,000Hail damaged a few vehicles.
May 2024HailBrewster-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBrewster-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down.
June 2016HailBrewster-A truck driver reported nickel size hail, strong winds, and heavy rain.
June 2014Heavy RainBrewster-Rainfall of 4.50 inches was measured in a 5 hour period. Rainfall for 24 hours is 10 inches.
July 2013HailBrewster-Large hail caised an unknown amount of damage to vehicles.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBrewster-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down.
May 2024HailBrewster-no account filed
May 2012HailBrewster-no account filed
May 2005HailBrewster-no account filed
September 2005HailBrewster-no account filed
April 2004HailBrewster-no account filed
May 2004HailBrewster-no account filed
May 2004HailBrewster-no account filed
May 2004HailBrewster-no account filed
July 2000HailBrewster-no account filed
June 1994HailBrewster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nobles 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
Worthington8.7 miles8
Kinbrae8.8 miles8
Dundee10.2 miles8
Round Lake10.9 miles7
Org12.6 miles8
Reading13.0 miles8
Pfingsten13.1 miles7
Bigelow17.8 miles8

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 BrewsterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1862901The 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.