BlockCobden, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cobden City. It lies in ZIP code area 56085. The Survey maps it on the Evan quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCobden grew from 36 to 36 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 | 36 | |
| 2020 | 36 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1953 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Evan quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
654 words on this townshipHistory of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Cobden City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Cobden is situated in Prairieville township, section 31, township 110, range 33 west, and was platted on February 16, 1901, by Thomas Peterson and S. C. Prederickson. Its population in 1910 was given as eighty-five. It is the first station west of Sleepy Eye, on the Chicago & Northwestern railway.
Passage source: History of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916.
Cobden became an incorporated village in 1905. The first set of village officers included these: Thomas Peterson, president ; A. Newdoll, A. C. Klein, Herman Altermatt, councilmen; J. F. Brodish, recorder. During the present year a contract will be let for the erection of a village hall. The village now has a debt of six hundred dollars. The place has an excellent set of gas street lamps and is tile drained throughout. There is a very efficient volunteer company for the fighting of any fire that may occur in the village ; it has sixteen members, and is aided materially by use of a chemical engine.
Passage source: History of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cobden: 2 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alt Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Shoemacher Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cobden in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cobden | - | A small and narrow misocyclone on the leading edge of a storm traveled across corn and bean fields only. Drone video was utilized and an on-site survey was performed. The path was also identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. It was not possible to correlate the crop damage with any radar circulation. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Cobden | - | Satellite imagery revealed a damage path through crops, and a damage survey noted large branches down. Time based on radar. QLCS tornado. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cobden | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a misovortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. It was not possible to correlate the crop damage with any radar circulation. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Cobden | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Section 20 of Leavenworth Township. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cobden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evan | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Leavenworth | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Sleepy Eye | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Springfield | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Iberia | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Stark | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dotson | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Comfrey | 12.5 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 Cobden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334596 | 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 641372. 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.
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.