Echo, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Echo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56237. The Survey maps it on the Echo quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Echo within Yellow Medicine County

Population over time

2 figures

Echo fell from 278 to 243 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	278
2020	243	-35 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Echo quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Echo: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
	Delano Granite Future Quarry	Granite	Prospect
	Rikke Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Yellow Medicine County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Echo in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Echo	$750,000	A long-lived and complex storm moved into far southeast Yellow Medicine County around 336 PM CST, and caused considerable damage to outbuildings, a few homes, crops and trees. Based on the damage reports and radar imagery, wind speeds were likely sustained above 70 to 90 mph, for 10 to 15 minutes in any given location as the storm traversed the county.
July 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Echo	$500,000	An EF-1 tornado continued along a path across Yellow Medicine County near 100th Avenue and 600th Street, northeast to near 130th Avenue, and 370th Street where it crossed back into northwest Redwood County. Several trees were uprooted along the path along with a few homes damaged.
March 2010	Flood	Echo	$420,000	In Granite Falls, 466th Street was closed at 889th Street due to flood waters of the Minnesota River. In addition, the county roads southeast of Granite Falls, on 620th Street, from 180th to 190th Ave were flooded.\|\|Monetary costs were based on FEMA, State, and Local assistance which includes the following categories; debris removal, emergency protective measures, road systems and bridges, water control facilities, and parks.
September 2006	Funnel Cloud	Echo	-	Multiple reports of the funnel.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Echo	-	Few trees down. This was the last severe weather event to be reported from an intense high-precipitation supercell that tracked southeast. The storm produced severe weather for approximately 60 miles across Lac Qui Parle and Yellow Medicine Counties. An NWS damage survey was performed from Dawson to Boyd (Lac Qui Parle County); the damage was such that a tornado could neither be proved nor disproved. Video from a meteorologist indicated there was a tornado from south of Boyd to south of Clarkfield (see related entry).
June 2019	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Echo	-	no account filed
June 1996	Funnel Cloud	Echo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellow Medicine 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wood Lake	6.9 miles	10
Hanley Falls	12.0 miles	10
Lorne	12.2 miles	10
Valley Courts	14.7 miles	9
Granite Falls	15.0 miles	9
Hazel Run	18.3 miles	9
Normania	20.8 miles	9
Spring Creek	23.9 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 Echo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231632	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 643147. 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.

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.