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Bricelyn, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seely Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56014. The Survey maps it on the Bricelyn quadrangle. 348 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.

Bricelyn within Faribault County

Population over time

2 figures

Bricelyn fell from 365 to 348 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
2010365
2020348-17 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

1,330 words on this township

The History of Faribault County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Year 1879 : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Seely Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Seely Township - 1,330 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bricelyn: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Olman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Faribault County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bricelyn in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 2017Tornado (EF1)Bricelyn-A NWS storm survey indicated that a EF1 tornado touched down just northwest of Bricelyn, and moved northeast, damaging a campground at Rice Lake, then it moved just north of I-90 before lifting. Several camper trailers were overturned or lofted, numerous trees were uprooted or broken, several sheds were damaged, and one barn collapsed.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Bricelyn-Tornado moved across open fields. Recorded on video and photo by multiple chasers.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Bricelyn-Tornado moved across open fields. Recorded on video by chasers.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-Roof damage; large branches down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-Several trees down.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-The WFS elevator facility in Bricelyn sustained some of the most substantial damage. Winds blew down a small part of the top of the west elevator, causing some electrical lines to spark. Large branches downed elsewhere in Bricelyn. As reported by the Courier-Sentinel newspaper.
October 2006HailBricelyn-Many area homes suffered broken windows, some of which allowed the hail to enter home interiors. Some cars received dimpled exteriors due to hail. Some information provided by the Kiester Courier-Sentinel newspaper.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-Large branches down, trees felled, and a few power lines down.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-Power lines down. Ten to twelve foot trees down, trees in power lines.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-Tree downed, brushing house.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBricelyn-Large branches down.
July 2012HailBricelyn-no account filed
June 2007HailBricelyn-no account filed
October 2005HailBricelyn-no account filed
August 2004HailBricelyn-no account filed
July 2003HailBricelyn-no account filed
May 2001HailBricelyn-no account filed
March 1998HailBricelyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faribault 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
Kiester5.6 miles8
Brush Creek6.0 miles8
Frost6.3 miles8
Dell6.9 miles8
Walters7.9 miles8
Marna10.8 miles6
Baroda13.1 miles8
Wells13.4 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 BricelynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334020The 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 640470. 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.

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.