Danube, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Danube City. It lies in ZIP code area 56230. The Survey maps it on the Danube quadrangle. 458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDanube fell from 505 to 458 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 | 505 | |
| 2020 | 458 | -47 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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
- 1965 USGS Danube quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Danube in 2004, burning about 40 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | 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 Danube: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danube Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danube in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 19 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Danube | $250,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down north-northwest of Danube, and moved north-northeast. It dissipated approximately 3.7 miles north of Danube and caused damage to a house and a large equipment shed along its path. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Danube | - | Lots of different sized hail was reported, up to golf ball. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | Several trees were blown down in Danube. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Danube | - | There was a brief tornado touchdown in an open field north of Danube. The tornado was caught on video and pictures as it kicked up dust from the farm field, but toward the end, it did hit a few trees and break some large branches. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Danube | - | A trained spotter measured 6.05 inches of rain northwest of Danube. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | Numerous trees 2 to 3 feet in diameter toppled throughout the city. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | One foot diameter trees downed. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | Several trees down. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Danube | - | Brief touchdown in field. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | Large branches down. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down two barns and several trees and power lines near Sacred Heart and Danube. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danube | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Danube | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Danube | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivia | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Renville | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bechyn | 9.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bird Island | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Sacred Heart | 13.5 miles | 9 | |
| Beaver Falls | 14.7 miles | 13 | |
| Morton | 17.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hector | 20.5 miles | 9 |
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 Danube | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2232293 | 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 642632. 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.





