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Browerville, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Browerville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56438. It stands on Harris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Browerville quadrangle. 839 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Browerville within Todd County

On record in Browerville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Browerville grew from 790 to 839 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
2010790
2020839+49 (+6%)

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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Browerville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 264 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1997Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1996Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1992Arson/incendiarism11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

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 Browerville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
Browerville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sanders PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browerville in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Flash FloodBrowerville$400,000Todd County had numerous culverts washed out. The heaviest rain fell north of Clarissa. Measured 5.62 in Clarissa, 6 to 8 public reports elsewhere. There was also damage to a few structures from the flood waters, with an estimated $400,000 in total damages.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBrowerville$50,000The local emergency manager, and pictures and drone video of damage, indicated that downburst winds caused damage to a few outbuildings and sheds northeast of Browerville, and a swath of large trees was blown down approximately 8 miles east of Browerville.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-Portion of a shed's roof blown off and Fish house blown around along CR 29 north of Mill Lake or six miles east-southeast of Bowerville. The AWOS station approximately seven miles SW of this location recorded a 45-mph wind gust.
August 2024HailBrowerville-Photo measurement provided via social media.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-Several trees were blown down east of Browerville, along Highway 16.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-Several trees and power lines were blown down near Browerville.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-A few trees were uprooted north of Browerville on Highway 71.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Browerville-An off-duty emergency manager witnessed a brief touchdown of a tornado 3 miles south of Browerville, 1/2 mile east of Highway 71. No damage was reported.
August 2004HailBrowerville-The hail swath was one mile wide and went from Browerville eastward into Morrison County.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-Another wide swath of damaging wind moved through Todd County, this time affecting the east central portion. It was associated with a three mile long tornado from 1500 to 1505 that began in Todd County and briefly entered Morrison County. The NWS damage survey determined, however, that the vast majority of the widespread damage was due to the strong downburst. Thousands of trees were felled, including many hundred that snapped. Some trees fell on houses, outbuildings and vehicles. All trees from the downburst were oriented from northeast to southwest.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2024HailBrowerville-no account filed
August 2024HailBrowerville-no account filed
June 2024HailBrowerville-no account filed
May 2018HailBrowerville-no account filed
September 2005HailBrowerville-no account filed
June 2003HailBrowerville-no account filed
June 2001HailBrowerville-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBrowerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Clarissa5.4 miles9
Long Prairie7.7 miles9
Clotho10.4 miles9
Eagle Bend10.7 miles9
Gutches Grove11.0 miles8
Round Prairie12.6 miles8
Pillsbury14.3 miles10
Little Sauk15.6 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 BrowervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576735The 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 640527. 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.