Edgerton, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Edgerton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56128. It stands on Chanarambie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton South quadrangle. 1,258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,578 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEdgerton grew from 1,189 to 1,258 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 | 1,189 | |
| 2020 | 1,258 | +69 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Edgerton South quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
3,855 words on this townshipAn Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Edgerton City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Excepting Pipestone, the oldest town in Pipestone county is Edgerton, fourteen miles southeast of the county seat, on the Southern Minnesota division of the C'liicago, Jlihvaukee & St. Paul railroad. With a population of 381 people, as returned by the 1910 census, Edgerton is the third town in the county in point of size. It has always been a thriving place, and the visitor is at once attracted by tlie ma;iy evidences of prosperity presented. The center of a productive farming region, Edgerton is unexcelled by any of the smaller towns of southwestern Minnesota as a business point. Nature has most kindly favored it. Situated on Chanarambie creek, near its junction witli Rock river, it is here the valleys of these two streams unite to form a broad plain with gradual slopes to the east, south and west, insuring a condition much desired by any town - an almost perfect system of natural drainage.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.
It was during the early years of settlement in Pipestone county that Edgerton made its bid for recognition. When the Southern Minnesota railroad pushed through the county late in 1879 it found perched on the prairie in Osborne township a little hamlet awaiting its coming. Reversing the usual order of proceedings, the promoters of the village did not wait for the coining of the iron horse to found the town ; tliey founded the town and let the railroad come when it was ready.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.
Saunders and S. L. Bailey. A year passed before the requested action was taken. The authorities at Washington authorized the establishment of the Osborne postoffice May 7. 1S79. but not until in the late summer, after the town of Edgerton had been founded, was the office put in op:>ration.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Edgerton City - it names this place 27 more 27 times.
Storms near this place
32 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgerton in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a bowling alley, and caused tree damage. |
| June 1997 | Heavy Rain | Edgerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Edgerton | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Three inch diameter branches were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Numerous 2 to 3 inch branches were downed by thunderstorm winds near downtown Edgerton. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Several power poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | One-half dozen large pine trees were snapped off, as well as a large deciduous tree uprooted, by strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous 2 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including moderate size branches blown down. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Edgerton | - | A trained spotter observed large hail, and also rotation in the clouds. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Very large hail just outside of Edgerton caused an unknown amount of crop damage. The hail was local and no property damage was confirmed. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, causing a power outage. The winds blew down 3 to 4 inch diameter branches. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not determined. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Hail of unknown size caused undetermined crop damage. Heavy rain and winds which were strong but not otherwise damaging contributed to the crop damage, which was not major according to the county extension office. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Edgerton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hatfield | 6.8 miles | 7 | |
| Trosky | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Diamond Corner | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Woodstock | 9.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ihlen | 12.9 miles | 7 | |
| Pipestone | 13.4 miles | 9 | |
| Jasper Sunrise Village | 14.0 miles | 7 | |
| Jasper | 14.4 miles | 7 |
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 Edgerton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230895 | 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 643170. 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.
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.



