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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.

Edgerton within Pipestone County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgerton 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,189
20201,258+69 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

In the county-history sources

3,855 words on this township

An 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 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$15,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a bowling alley, and caused tree damage.
June 1997Heavy RainEdgerton$10,000no account filed
May 1996LightningEdgerton$500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Three inch diameter branches were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Numerous 2 to 3 inch branches were downed by thunderstorm winds near downtown Edgerton.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Several power poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-One-half dozen large pine trees were snapped off, as well as a large deciduous tree uprooted, by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous 2 inch diameter branches blown down.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including moderate size branches blown down.
August 2008HailEdgerton-A trained spotter observed large hail, and also rotation in the clouds.
August 2008HailEdgerton-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 2008HailEdgerton-Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, causing a power outage. The winds blew down 3 to 4 inch diameter branches.
July 2004HailEdgerton-Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not determined.
July 1995HailEdgerton-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 2025HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2025HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2025HailEdgerton-no account filed
August 2021HailEdgerton-no account filed
May 2014HailEdgerton-no account filed
July 2014HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2014HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2014HailEdgerton-no account filed
September 2010HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2006HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2006HailEdgerton-no account filed
June 2006HailEdgerton-no account filed
July 2004HailEdgerton-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEdgerton-no account filed
March 1998HailEdgerton-no account filed
October 1998HailEdgerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pipestone 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
Hatfield6.8 miles7
Trosky6.9 miles7
Diamond Corner8.5 miles7
Woodstock9.5 miles9
Ihlen12.9 miles7
Pipestone13.4 miles9
Jasper Sunrise Village14.0 miles7
Jasper14.4 miles7

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 EdgertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230895The 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.