Climax, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Climax City. It lies in ZIP code area 56523. The Survey maps it on the Climax quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClimax fell from 267 to 243 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 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 243 | -24 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Eldred quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Climax quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climax in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | 1 hurt, $2,000 | The wind blew out a window on a tractor, injuring the man inside. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $30,000 | A pole barn was destroyed. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $5,000 | A grove of mature pine trees was flattened. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $200 | A tree was blown down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | - | Broadcast Media relays a report of 4 inch tree branch snapped in Climax. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Climax | - | Climax gage, on the Sandhill River. Crested at 20.69 ft on April 24th at 02:15. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Climax | - | Pea-sized hail was reported in small drifts. Some stones were as large as a quarter. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | - | A tree was blown over in a yard. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | - | Tree damage was reported in the town of Climax. A few minutes of pea to penny sized hail also fell. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Climax | - | The hail was soft and was accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | - | A few large three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down in farmstead shelterbelts. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Climax | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Climax | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eldred | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Nielsville | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Girard | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Fisher | 13.3 miles | 8 | |
| Wilds | 13.5 miles | 10 | |
| Greenview | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Ross | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Crookston Junction | 14.5 miles | 9 |
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 Climax | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346581 | 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 655757. 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.





