Courtland, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Courtland City. It lies in ZIP code area 56021. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle. 734 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCourtland grew from 611 to 734 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 | 611 | |
| 2020 | 734 | +123 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Courtland between 2001 and 2018, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2012 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 October 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Courtland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Ulm Quartzite Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Courtland in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 tornado, 1 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 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | $50,000 | A tin roof was blown off a shed, a small shed was blown 300' downwind, and a door was blown off a machine shed. The damage was localized to one part of the barn. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Courtland | - | The location and track of this tornado is based on storm chaser video. It moved through fields and across a road without hitting any damage indicators. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | A large tree was broken off several feet above its base in Courtland. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in Courtland. |
| July 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Courtland | - | The tornado hit two farms, damaging sheds and other outbuildings. It also moved across fields, damaging crops. Some trees were also knocked down. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Courtland | - | Two roads in Courtland were washed out by heavy rains Friday night. One was about a mile west of 491st Street, and 506th Street was closed through 511th Street due to flooding. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down from Courtland, and 4 miles east of Courtland. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF2) | Courtland | - | The tornado touched down on the west side of Courtland, near Highway 14. The tornado produced EF-1 damage in the town of Courtland, where numerous trees were uprooted and many large tree branches were downed. The tornado continued east- southeast and strengthened in intensity just south of County Highway 25, where it produced EF-2 damage to multiple farmsteads. Damage included total destruction of a barn just west of the intersection of 511th avenue and County Highway 25. Widespread tree damage and snapped electrical transmission lines were also noted. |
| September 2010 | Flood | Courtland | - | Numerous roads were closed due to excessive rainfall that fell on September 22nd and 23th. The major areal flooding didn't recede until late Saturday when most of the small streams and creeks had crested and only mainstem rivers remained flooded. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Few trees down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Few trees down. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Courtland | - | According to the Nicollet County Extension Office, twenty minutes of hail caused damage to 18,000 acres of crops, and 6,000 acres needed to be replanted. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Ten inch diameter trees snapped in half. Winds estimated. |
| March 1998 | Tornado (F4) | Courtland | - | See narrative for Brown county. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Garages and barns destroyed. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Roof torn off barn. Shed destroyed. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Grain elevator sustained extensive damage. Apartment building garage damaged. Firehall damaged. Trees down. Estimated windspeed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | Extensive farm damage. Shed destroyed. Roof to chicken house blown off. Estimated windspeed. |
| August 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Courtland | - | A tornado briefly touched down in an open farm field and damaged 5 ,acres of corn, about 1 mile east of Courtland. , |
| July 2017 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Courtland | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Courtland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicollet Landing | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Poor Farm Landing | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Klossner | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Nicollet | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| New Sweden | 12.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lafayette | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Oshawa | 12.6 miles | 10 | |
| Kerns | 12.8 miles | 13 |
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 Courtland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2190214 | 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 642396. 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.
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.






