Cologne, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55322. The Survey maps it on the Waconia quadrangle. 2,047 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.
On record in Cologne
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 5 records
Philip Guettler Houselisted 1980
John Knotz Houselisted 1980
Paul Mohrbacher Houselisted 1980
West Unionlisted 1980- J. Carsten and Magaretha Harms Farmhouselisted 2013
Population over time
3 figuresCologne grew from 60 to 2,047 between 1880 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 60 | |
| 2010 | 1,519 | |
| 2020 | 2,047 | +528 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Waconia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Waconia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cologne in 2007, burning about 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 52 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cologne in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cologne | $25,000 | There were multiple trees and power lines blown down near Cologne. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | Cologne | - | A local observer measured 4.20 inches in the last 24 hours. |
| June 2012 | Flash Flood | Cologne | - | Due to approximately 3.5 inches of rainfall during a short period of time, Maplewood Road in Dahlgren Township, between Market Ave and County Road 41 was closed due to a culvert wash-out. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Cologne | - | Several inches of rain fell across a large portion of Carver County between 1 and 4 AM CST. Some areas in the town of Cologne, Minnesota had 12 inches of flowing water over its streets during the height of the storm. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cologne | - | Small trees down. Several branches four inches in diameter felled. Pea size hail also reported. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cologne | - | Heavy debris was reported in the air near the county maintenance building between Norwood and Cologne along Route 212. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cologne | - | Scattered trees down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cologne | - | Large branches down. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cologne | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Cologne | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benton | 0.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bongards | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Gotha | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hydes Lake | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Dahlgren | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Augusta | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Waconia | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Coney Island | 5.8 miles | 12 |
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 Cologne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346558 | 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 641408. 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.






