Eagle Bend, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eagle Bend City. It lies in ZIP code area 56446. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bend quadrangle. 546 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,368 feet above sea level.
On record in Eagle Bend
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 1 record
- Eagle Bend High Schoollisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresEagle Bend grew from 535 to 546 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 | 535 | |
| 2020 | 546 | +11 (+2%) |
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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Eagle Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Bend between 1992 and 2011, burning about 270 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Bend in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bend | $10,000 | Large tree toppled, crashed through residential roof. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bend | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds caused damage to a barn, and a few trees to snap off near Eagle Bend, Minnesota. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Eagle Bend | - | This tornado tore through the eastern side of Eagle Bend. It knocked down or snapped many trees, partially removed roofs from several houses, peeled tin off the roof of multiple sheds and buildings, and took the top off three massive and filled grain bins in Eagle Bend. Multiple farmsteads were hit, destroying barns, machine sheds, and other outbuildings. It ended about 5 miles west-southwest of Staples where the scattered tree damage pattern could no longer be determined to be of tornadic origin. Determination of the specific path was assisted by Todd County Emergency Management, which provided drone imagery to the NWS. Maximum winds were estimated to be 100 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bend | - | Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bend | - | Six inch diameter branches severed, 20 foot braced holding bin tossed into the air. Estimated windspeed. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Eagle Bend | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bend | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarissa | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bertha | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Clotho | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Browerville | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Hewitt | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Gutches Grove | 15.8 miles | 8 | |
| Long Prairie | 16.0 miles | 9 | |
| Staples | 18.6 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 Eagle Bend | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231810 | 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 643006. 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.





