Cedar Mills, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cedar Mills City. It lies in ZIP code area 55350. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Mills quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCedar Mills grew from 45 to 62 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 62 | +17 (+38%) |
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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Cedar Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Mills between 1997 and 2013, burning about 226 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 39 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LAKE HARDEN WF |
| 8 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 124 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | COOMBS WF |
| 29 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Mills in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 11 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Cedar Mills | - | A trained spotter located in Hutchinson spotted a funnel cloud to the west and southwest. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highways 7 and 22. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | Quarter sized hail was reported via HAM radio. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | Hail pounded houses, vehicles and crops. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Cedar Mills | - | County wide flooding. Five to ten inches of rain were reported across much of Meeker, with the heaviest rainfall amounts across the southern tier. Ten inches were registered between Cedar Mills and Cosmos, along with 5 to 7 inches common from Lake Minnie Belle to Grover City. A number of roads were flooded, and many crops were under water. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Mills | - | 20 ton truck rolled over by wind. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Mills | - | Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | Hail damage to crops. Estimated hail size. |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Cedar Mills | - | Tornado touched down briefly, but caused no damage. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Cedar Mills | - | 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 Cedar Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346749 | 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 641029. 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.
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.





