BlockComstock, Minnesota
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Holy Cross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56525. The Survey maps it on the Comstock quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
On record in Comstock
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 2 records
Comstock Public Schoollisted 1980- Bernard Bernhardson Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresComstock grew from 93 to 100 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 | 93 | |
| 2020 | 100 | +7 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 22 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.
- 1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Comstock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Storms near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comstock in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Flood | Comstock | $10,000 | Overland flooding developed over portions of Holy Cross Township drained by Wolverton Creek. Four to eight inches of rainfall during the preceding evening collected in farm fields, ditches, and smaller streams through the early morning then steadily drained towards Wolverton Creek and the Red River. Wolverton Creek overtopped and partially washed out rural and township roads at several locations. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Comstock | $500 | Two to three inches of heavy rain produced street flooding in the community of Comstock, in nearby farm fields, and across several sections of road in western Holy Cross township. Flooding conditions along adjacent portions of the Red River were also increased. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comstock | - | Downed tree. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comstock | - | Delayed report of tree damage from social media, time estimated from radar. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comstock | - | A few large branches were knocked down at a farmstead. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Comstock | - | Steady nickel to quarter sized hail fell. Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland across central Holy Cross Township. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Comstock | - | A hail patch was noted across highway 75. Some of the hail was still a bit larger than a quarter about 10 minutes after it had passed. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comstock | - | Large tree branches were blown down with power outages reported. |
| September 2002 | Hail | Comstock | - | The large hail caused substantial damage in Comstock. Roofs, windows, and cars were damaged. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Comstock | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Comstock | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Comstock | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Comstock | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Comstock | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Comstock | - | 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.
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 Comstock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2333728 | 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 641429. 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.