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Canby, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canby City. It lies in ZIP code area 56220. The Survey maps it on the Canby quadrangle. 1,695 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,237 feet above sea level.

Canby within Yellow Medicine County

On record in Canby

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

Canby fell from 1,795 to 1,695 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
20101,795
20201,695-100 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Canby in 2012, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Smoking1

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
3 October 2012Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Yellow Medicine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Canby: 1 producer. 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
D and C Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yellow Medicine County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canby in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2015Tornado (EF1)Canby$500,000A tornado moved across several farmsteads, destroying several outbuildings, uprooting or breaking hundreds of trees, and damaging crops. About seven hay bales (each with a diameter of six feet) were blown apart for about 1/4 mile downwind. The damage pattern suggested this was a multiple vortex tornado. The tornado was accompanied by a damaging rear flank downdraft just to the south of the tornado.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCanby$250,000In addition to the Canby Airport severe wind gust, two structures had significant damage in Canby. One house had its roof torn off north of Canby, and a church in Canby had its tin roof blown off.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCanby$100,000Strong rear flank downdraft winds accompanied a tornado. The winds tipped over two silos that landed on top of a barn about 4 miles south of Canby. The winds also toppled dozens of trees. Even after the tornado dissipated, strong winds continued eastward into the city of Porter, with occasional tree and crop damage along the way.
May 2024Funnel CloudCanby-A funnel cloud was photographed near Canby. Other funnel clouds may have occurred in the area, but additional information was not provided.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Canby-A storm chaser took photos of a landspout tornado. It was mostly over an open field, but did knock down large branches of a few trees. Part of the circulation moved across a tractor being driven by a local farmer, but the vehicle remained upright. The time was based on the chaser's phone and compared with radar.
June 2007HailCanby-Hail covered the driveway of residence.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCanby-Wind gust measured at the Canby Airport. The gust resulted from a Heat Burst caused by decaying thunderstorms and a very warm and dry lower and middle atmosphere. In addition to the wind gust, the temperature jumped from 91 degrees to 100 degrees between 10:35 PM and 11:15 PM. The dew point temperature also dropped from 63 degrees to 32 degrees between 1035 PM and 1115 PM.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCanby-Law enforcement officers reported downed trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCanby-Trees and branches were downed. A few business signs were damaged and a large piece of tin roofing material was thrown approximately 50 yards.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCanby-Trees were downed and a wagon was tossed into a pasture on a farm in Fortier Township.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Canby-No damage, touchdown in open field.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCanby-Numerous 6 inch diameter branches down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1999HailCanby-Hail punched holes in plexiglass porch sunroof.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCanby-Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCanby-Trees and powerlines blown down. Barns destroyed. Minor damage to high school. Grain bin also blown down in Porter. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCanby-Trees down.
October 1997HailCanby-Hail damage included roof of bus garage, elementary school windows and a school vehicle.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCanby-There was some roof damage.
July 1994HailCanby-A tornado touched down briefly near Canby damaging some buildings on a farmstead and downing several trees.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Canby-A tornado touched down briefly near Canby damaging some buildings on a farmstead and downing several trees.
June 2015HailCanby-no account filed
June 2015HailCanby-no account filed
July 2006HailCanby-no account filed
June 2006HailCanby-no account filed
April 2004HailCanby-no account filed
June 2004HailCanby-no account filed
April 2002HailCanby-no account filed
June 1999HailCanby-no account filed
June 1999HailCanby-no account filed
May 1996HailCanby-no account filed
July 1994HailCanby-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCanby-no account filed
July 1994HailCanby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellow Medicine 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
Burr5.2 miles8
Porter7.7 miles8
Saint Leo11.9 miles8
Spring Creek22.7 miles9
Normania25.2 miles9
Clarkfield25.4 miles9
Hazel Run29.9 miles9
Hanley Falls34.7 miles10

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 CanbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q687904The 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 640861. 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.