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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.

Courtland within Nicollet County

Population over time

2 figures

Courtland 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.

YearPeople Change
2010611
2020734+123 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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
6 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 October 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nicollet County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
New Ulm Quartzite QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Nicollet County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCourtland$50,000A 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 2025Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindCourtland-A large tree was broken off several feet above its base in Courtland.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Several large tree branches were blown down in Courtland.
July 2017Tornado (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 2016Flash FloodCourtland-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 2016Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down from Courtland, and 4 miles east of Courtland.
June 2010Tornado (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 2010FloodCourtland-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 2003Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Few trees down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Few trees down.
May 2000HailCourtland-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 1999Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Ten inch diameter trees snapped in half. Winds estimated.
March 1998Tornado (F4)Courtland-See narrative for Brown county.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Garages and barns destroyed. Estimated windspeed.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Roof torn off barn. Shed destroyed. Estimated windspeed.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Grain elevator sustained extensive damage. Apartment building garage damaged. Firehall damaged. Trees down. Estimated windspeed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Extensive farm damage. Shed destroyed. Roof to chicken house blown off. Estimated windspeed.
August 1994Tornado (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 2017HailCourtland-no account filed
May 2016HailCourtland-no account filed
May 2012HailCourtland-no account filed
July 1999HailCourtland-no account filed
June 1999HailCourtland-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCourtland-no account filed
March 1998HailCourtland-no account filed
May 1998HailCourtland-no account filed
October 1996HailCourtland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nicollet 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
Nicollet Landing6.6 miles9
Poor Farm Landing6.7 miles9
Klossner8.1 miles11
Nicollet8.1 miles9
New Sweden12.5 miles9
Lafayette12.6 miles9
Oshawa12.6 miles10
Kerns12.8 miles13

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 CourtlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2190214The 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.