Ellsworth, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ellsworth City. It lies in ZIP code area 56129. The Survey maps it on the Ellsworth quadrangle. 497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.
On record in Ellsworth
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
- Siemer Silo and Barnlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresEllsworth grew from 463 to 497 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 | 463 | |
| 2020 | 497 | +34 (+7%) |
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 Ellsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellsworth: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnerud Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
47 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellsworth in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 26 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Flood | Ellsworth | $3,600,000 | Rainfall amounts across Nobles County from June 20-22 ranged from 4 to 10 inches. This rainfall resulted in widespread overland flooding across the county. Okabena Lake in Worthington also overflowed its banks, flooding the downtown area and residential properties surrounding the lake. ||During peak flooding, there were 3 swift water rescues and a reported 6 stalled vehicles. Three apartment buildings and one home in Worthington needed to be evacuated, impacting 35 individuals. County-wide, 350 individuals reported flood damage. Of these, 5 residences were declared destroyed, 55 with major damage, and another 250 with minor damage. ||There were 150 locations that reported flood damage to roads, culverts, and bridges. There were also 40 drainage ditches with major damages. Among numerous township, county, and state roads that were closed and damaged, Interstate 90 was also closed with water over the roadbed in many locations for up to 3 days. Seven of eleven municipalities declared flood damages. The Adrian School District reported water damage to 2 school facilities and there also were collapsed sewer pipes within the city. Preliminary damage assessments estimate loss to public infrastructure to be 3.6 million dollars. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Ellsworth | $316,000 | Flooding resulted in extensive damage to public infrastructure including numerous county and township roads, culverts, and some bridges. The property damage costs include estimates for public property losses. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused severe damage to at least two farms. Barns at both farms were completely destroyed, as were two vehicles in one of the barns. There was also damage to houses, equipment, and trees on the farms. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a small building. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | Photo was provided of some significant tree damage on the edge of Ellsworth with up to one foot diameter tree limbs snapped off. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Ellsworth | - | A tornado developed 4 miles north-northeast of Ellsworth, just south of 290th Street west of Chaney Avenue, and tracked eastward around one-half mile before dissipating. Damage was limited to a tree line where several trees were snapped and gnarled. The estimated maximum wind speed was 72 mph and the average path width was 50 yards. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Wind gusts to around 50 mph reported with the hail. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Ellsworth | - | Rainfall report of 3.20 inches from the public through social media. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Heavy damage to crops. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Ellsworth | - | During crop planting season, prolonged flooding led to the loss of or inability to plant crops across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| September 2019 | Flood | Ellsworth | - | Flooding resulted in crop losses across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Report via social media. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | Did not result in any known damage. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Ellsworth | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several gravel and paved rural roads. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and picked up debris. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Large hail dented vehicles. The amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Large hail whitened the ground, and was accompanied by damaging winds. Crops in the area were damaged, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The damaging winds were accompanied by large hail. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Large hail damaged crops, and broke windows on at least one home. The amount of crop damage and property damage was not known. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Large hail, mostly of nickel to quarter size, but with some of golf ball size, covered the ground and caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Ellsworth | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of low areas, including fields and roads. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ellsworth | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ellsworth | - | A brief tornado caused minor tree damage. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Large hail dented vehicles and damaged area crops. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | Large hail dented vehicles and damaged area crops. The amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | - | 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.
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 Ellsworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1911478 | 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 643292. 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.



