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Eyota, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eyota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55934. The Survey maps it on the Eyota quadrangle. 2,006 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Eyota within Olmsted County

On record in Eyota

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Eyota grew from 1,977 to 2,006 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
20101,977
20202,006+29 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eyota in 1997, burning about 1 acre 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
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
4 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eyota: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Schoenfelder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Walsh Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Willey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eyota in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2007Flash FloodEyota$9,600,000Numerous streets were flooded. Sand bagging was needed with some street closures. Several nearby bridges were badly damaged and railroad tracks were bent out of place. Highway 14 was closed at Highway 42 due to flooding and residents of the Eyota trailer park were evacuated.||In Eyota specifically, 16 of 20 business had damage, 600 of 716 homes had at least water damage, and in most basements there was 18 inches to 5 feet of water.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Eyota$50,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEyota$40,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindEyota$10,000Several trees were either blown down or sustained severe damage in Eyota. Some of the downed trees landed on power lines and houses. Garage windows were blown out and a fence went down over a part of U.S. Highway 14.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEyota$8,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEyota$4,000Trees were blown down in Eyota. A fire was started next to a home after a tree fell on top of a power line.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindEyota$2,000Power lines were blown down in Eyota.
June 2018FloodEyota$1,000Runoff from locally heavy rains pushed the South Fork of the Whitewater River out of its banks with water going over U.S. Highway 14 in Eyota.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEyota-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 60 mph in Eyota. Small trees down and debris blowing through fields was also reported.
July 2016Heavy RainEyota-The COOP observer in Eyota measured 3.88 inches of rain.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindEyota-A 60 mph wind gust occurred in Eyota.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEyota-Spotters in Eyota measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2013HailEyota-no account filed
August 2010HailEyota-no account filed
July 2005HailEyota-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEyota-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindEyota-no account filed
December 2001HailEyota-no account filed
May 1999HailEyota-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEyota-no account filed
June 1997HailEyota-no account filed
June 1997HailEyota-no account filed
August 1995HailEyota-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindEyota-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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
Dover4.8 miles9
Viola5.6 miles15
Chester6.3 miles15
Predmore6.3 miles9
Marion7.1 miles9
Cummingsville8.0 miles9
Kingsley Corner8.7 miles14
Simpson10.6 miles10

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 EyotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000205The 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 643483. 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.