BlockBrownsdale, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Red Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55918. The Survey maps it on the Brownsdale quadrangle. 633 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrownsdale fell from 676 to 633 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 | 676 | |
| 2020 | 633 | -43 (-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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Brownsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Brownsdale: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ackerman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wachlin Plit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsdale in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Brownsdale | $12,000 | Around three feet of water covered a county road with numerous wash outs and damage to drainage ditches east of Brownsdale. The roads in the area were closed until the water receded. West of Brownsdale, County Road 16 was also closed for a while with water over the road. The sewer system in Brownsdale was not able to handle all the runoff causing a backup into about 10 basements. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsdale | $8,000 | Trees were blown down in Brownsdale with some of them landing on houses. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Brownsdale | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Brownsdale | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsdale | $1,500 | Two trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds in Brownsdale. Another weaker tree fell on a power line. |
| August 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Brownsdale | - | This short EF-0 tornado occurred mainly in a farm field just north of Interstate 90 and about 7 miles east of Austin, Minnesota. Some tree damage occurred at a farm during the onset of the tornado. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Brownsdale | - | A total of 5 inches of rain fell in Brownsdale between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. CST. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Brownsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsdale | - | 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.
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 Brownsdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2333955 | 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 640546. 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.