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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.

Climax within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Climax 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.

YearPeople Change
2010267
2020243-24 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1997Thunderstorm WindClimax1 hurt, $2,000The wind blew out a window on a tractor, injuring the man inside.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindClimax$30,000A pole barn was destroyed.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindClimax$5,000A grove of mature pine trees was flattened.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindClimax$500no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindClimax$200A tree was blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindClimax-Broadcast Media relays a report of 4 inch tree branch snapped in Climax.
April 2023FloodClimax-Climax gage, on the Sandhill River. Crested at 20.69 ft on April 24th at 02:15.
September 2021HailClimax-Pea-sized hail was reported in small drifts. Some stones were as large as a quarter.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindClimax-A tree was blown over in a yard.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindClimax-Tree damage was reported in the town of Climax. A few minutes of pea to penny sized hail also fell.
July 2017HailClimax-The hail was soft and was accompanied by very heavy rain.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindClimax-A few large three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down in farmstead shelterbelts.
October 1997HailClimax-The hail covered the ground.
June 2008HailClimax-no account filed
August 2007HailClimax-no account filed
May 2004HailClimax-no account filed
August 2002HailClimax-no account filed
July 2000HailClimax-no account filed
July 2000HailClimax-no account filed
July 1999HailClimax-no account filed
June 1998HailClimax-no account filed
June 1998HailClimax-no account filed
August 1997HailClimax-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Climax-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Eldred5.5 miles10
Nielsville5.5 miles10
Girard11.3 miles10
Fisher13.3 miles8
Wilds13.5 miles10
Greenview13.6 miles9
Ross13.7 miles9
Crookston Junction14.5 miles9

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 ClimaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346581The 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.