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.
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
Bridge No. L7075listed 2016
Church of St. Joseph-Catholiclisted 1985
Kahlert Mercantile Storelisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresBrowerville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 790 | |
| 2020 | 839 | +49 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Browerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 June 1997 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browerville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sanders Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Browerville | $400,000 | Todd 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | $50,000 | The 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | 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 2024 | Hail | Browerville | - | Photo measurement provided via social media. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | Several trees were blown down east of Browerville, along Highway 16. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down near Browerville. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | A few trees were uprooted north of Browerville on Highway 71. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (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 2004 | Hail | Browerville | - | The hail swath was one mile wide and went from Browerville eastward into Morrison County. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | Trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Browerville | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browerville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarissa | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Long Prairie | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Clotho | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Eagle Bend | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Gutches Grove | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| Round Prairie | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pillsbury | 14.3 miles | 10 | |
| Little Sauk | 15.6 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 Browerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q576735 | 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 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.





