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Conger, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conger City. It lies in ZIP code area 56009. The Survey maps it on the Conger quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Conger within Freeborn County

Population over time

2 figures

Conger grew from 146 to 153 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
2010146
2020153+7 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Conger in 2015, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictIOWA CHICAGO & EASTERN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freeborn County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conger in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindConger$50,000Severe winds caused a roof of a home to blow off, along with a large grain bin destroyed.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindConger-The deck of a house was damaged. A grill was blown off the deck. A shed was also damaged. A home weather station measured 79 mph. A lean-to was also torn off a horse barn at the neighboring farm.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindConger-A local mesonet weather station measured a wind gust of 52 knots.
April 2025HailConger-no account filed
May 2018HailConger-no account filed
March 2017HailConger-no account filed
July 2012HailConger-no account filed
June 2010HailConger-no account filed
June 2001HailConger-no account filed
July 1999HailConger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freeborn 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
Alden4.6 miles8
Armstrong4.7 miles10
Mansfield5.2 miles8
Twin Lakes6.8 miles10
Emmons8.1 miles10
Manchester8.6 miles10
Albert Lea8.8 miles10
Stoney Creek Estates9.3 miles10

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 CongerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334527The 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 641442. 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.