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Elizabeth, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Elizabeth City. It lies in ZIP code area 56533. The Survey maps it on the Elizabeth quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Elizabeth within Otter Tail County

On record in Elizabeth

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

Population over time

2 figures

Elizabeth fell from 173 to 168 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
2010173
2020168-5 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 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/undetermined4
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 June 1992Smoking2.5 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictWILDUNG
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictSCRIBNERW
29 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictWILDUNG
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined57 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

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 Elizabeth: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eide PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Steib PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabeth in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$300,000Roofs were blown off turkey barns, trees were uprooted, and a barn was leveled.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$50,000The wind knocked down ten inch diameter branches.
May 2022HailElizabeth-Hail ranged from the size of quarters to the size of half-dollars, and lasted from 0826 to 0830CDT.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindElizabeth-Several 4 to 8 inch diameter branches were broken down in farmstead shelter belts across Oscar Township. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindElizabeth-Pole shed roofing and trusses were torn up. Ash and spruce trees were broken. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports. A couple of nearby power poles were cracked.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindElizabeth-Large trees were blown down. A tree branch broke through the roof and ceiling of a home on Jewett Lake.
July 2016HailElizabeth-The hail occurred near Long Lake.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Elizabeth-This tornado was viewed from near Elizabeth. The tornado snapped numerous large tree branches and limbs along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
September 2008Funnel CloudElizabeth-Two cold core funnels were viewed north of Elizabeth. The funnels stayed high, near the cloud base. No touchdowns were observed.
June 2007Tornado (EF1)Elizabeth-The tornado touched down just south of county road 10 to the west of Elizabeth and tracked north-northeast about 6 miles to about 2 miles south of Erhard. Several trees were torn down and a few power poles were snapped. Spotters noted that the tornado was up and down along this path. The tornado crossed Highway 59 about 2.7 miles north of Elizabeth. Peak winds were estimated at 90 to 95 mph.
August 2005HailElizabeth-The hail occurred along the Wilkin/Otter Tail county line.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindElizabeth-A 10 inch diameter tree was blown down across a road and grain bins were heavily damaged.
August 2005HailElizabeth-The large hail significantly damaged a house and car.
August 2005HailElizabeth-The large hail damaged homes, buildings, vehicles, and crops.
April 2020HailElizabeth-no account filed
July 2016Funnel CloudElizabeth-no account filed
August 2008HailElizabeth-no account filed
September 2005HailElizabeth-no account filed
April 2002HailElizabeth-no account filed
August 2002HailElizabeth-no account filed
August 2002HailElizabeth-no account filed
August 2001HailElizabeth-no account filed
July 1998HailElizabeth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Carlisle3.3 miles10
River Bluff Estates6.8 miles11
Lakeview Estates7.0 miles11
Fergus Falls7.2 miles11
French7.4 miles10
Erhard7.5 miles10
Edwards8.8 miles12
Wall Lake10.7 miles12

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 ElizabethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230861The 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 643253. 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.