Butterfield, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butterfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56120. The Survey maps it on the Butterfield quadrangle. 601 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,188 feet above sea level.

Butterfield within Watonwan County

Population over time

2 figures

Butterfield grew from 586 to 601 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	586
2020	601	+15 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Butterfield quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butterfield in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2006	Tornado (F3)	Butterfield	$2,000,000	Initial damage occurred at farmstead just east of the Watonwan/Cottonwood line. Damage included the partial removal of roofs off two large sheds, along with scattered downed trees. The tornado then moved across corn and bean fields. Another farmstead was hit just southwest of the intersection of County Roads 10 and 2. This was the location of the F3 damage. A house was leveled, a 60 foot concrete base silo was toppled and rolled. Virtually all barns, sheds and outbuildings were completely destroyed.
May 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Butterfield	-	Tornado was witnessed and filmed my multiple storm chasers. It moved across open fields and caused no damage.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Butterfield	-	Power line down. One half inch hail also reported.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Butterfield	-	Portable tin shed missing. Lawn furniture blown around. Metal birdhouse bent over. Large tree limb felled over driveway from local residence. Some damage reported in Adrian Township, extent unknown.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Butterfield	-	A large tree was downed onto County Road 19.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Butterfield	-	A few trees down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Butterfield	-	Trees down. Small hail also reported.
June 1997	Hail	Butterfield	-	15,000 acres damaged by hail.
June 2006	Hail	Butterfield	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Butterfield	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Butterfield	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Butterfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Watonwan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Echols	6.8 miles	7
Darfur	6.8 miles	9
Odin	6.9 miles	6
Saint James Place	8.3 miles	7
Sveadahl	8.5 miles	9
Saint James	9.0 miles	7
South Branch	14.0 miles	6
La Salle	14.2 miles	10

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 Butterfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2157485	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 640702. 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.