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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.

Cologne within Carver County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Cologne 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.

YearPeople Change
188060
20101,519
20202,047+528 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2007

Regional 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 use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 November 2007Equipment and vehicle use52 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carver County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCologne$25,000There were multiple trees and power lines blown down near Cologne.
May 2012Heavy RainCologne-A local observer measured 4.20 inches in the last 24 hours.
June 2012Flash FloodCologne-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 2010Flash FloodCologne-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 2006Thunderstorm WindCologne-Small trees down. Several branches four inches in diameter felled. Pea size hail also reported.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCologne-Heavy debris was reported in the air near the county maintenance building between Norwood and Cologne along Route 212.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCologne-Scattered trees down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCologne-Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2012HailCologne-no account filed
August 2011HailCologne-no account filed
June 2007HailCologne-no account filed
June 2007HailCologne-no account filed
April 2006HailCologne-no account filed
April 2006HailCologne-no account filed
September 2005HailCologne-no account filed
April 2004HailCologne-no account filed
May 2001HailCologne-no account filed
May 1998HailCologne-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCologne-no account filed
October 1996Tornado (F0)Cologne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carver 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
Benton0.3 miles12
Bongards3.6 miles12
Gotha3.8 miles11
Hydes Lake4.9 miles12
Dahlgren5.2 miles18
Augusta5.5 miles18
Waconia5.5 miles12
Coney Island5.8 miles12

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 CologneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346558The 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.