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Elrosa, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lake George Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56312. The Survey maps it on the Elrosa quadrangle. 213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Elrosa within Stearns County

Population over time

2 figures

Elrosa grew from 211 to 213 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
2010211
2020213+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

268 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lake George Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lake George Township - 268 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Elrosa between 2000 and 2001, burning about 8 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/undetermined2

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
11 October 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 January 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elrosa in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 3 tornado, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindElrosa$500,000A large shed lost part of its roof, a grain bin was dented in, other outbuildings were damaged, a few dozen trees were broken, and a few cornfields were damaged. This was all southeast of a tornado that tracked from west to northeast of Elrosa, and was deemed to be due to rear flank downdraft winds.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Elrosa$100,000Several spotters and storm chasers observed a tornado touch down approximately 2 miles southwest of Elrosa, and moved northeast across the southeast part of town. The tornado was rated an EF0, with top winds of 85 mph. The tornado demolished a mobile home, toppled trees (one of the trees landed on top of a wood working shop), and it also blew out a garage door.
September 2017Tornado (EF1)Elrosa-A tornado touched down on the edge of a corn field and moved east-northeast, missing the city of Elrosa by less than a mile. However, it hit several farms, including one where several metal sheds were destroyed. The tornado also knocked down or uprooted many trees and also severely damaged crops, especially corn that was ready for harvest.
July 2016Heavy RainElrosa-A measured rainfall report of 4.20 inches occurred near Elrosa.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Elrosa-Brief touchdown in an open field was videotaped by a trained spotter and viewed by multiple eyewitnesses.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindElrosa-One four foot diameter tree toppled.
August 2006HailElrosa-no account filed
July 2003HailElrosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
Greenwald5.3 miles8
Meire Grove6.2 miles10
Spring Hill6.8 miles8
Padua6.8 miles8
Belgrade8.2 miles9
Georgeville9.3 miles8
Brooten10.3 miles8
Lake Henry10.7 miles8

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 ElrosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2046681The 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 643318. 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.

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.