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Fisher, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fisher City. It lies in ZIP code area 56723. It stands on Burnham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fisher quadrangle. 422 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Fisher within Polk County

Population over time

3 figures

Fisher fell from 435 to 422 between 2002 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
2002435
20104350 (0%)
2020422-13 (-3%)

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.

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fisher in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindFisher$50,000Power poles were blown down.
April 2013FloodFisher$5,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFisher$200Tree branches were blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFisher-Five trees blown down in a yard, one partially uprooted. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFisher-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFisher-The strong wind gust occurred at Fisher.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFisher-Numerous mature trees were blown down in and around Fisher. Several fences were also damaged.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindFisher-The wind gust was measured by a MNDOT RWIS sensor along U.S. Highway 2 west of Fisher.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Fisher-The tornado made a brief touchdown near the Red Lake River. The tops of trees were broken off.
June 2005Tornado (F2)Fisher-Two steel grains bins were ripped off their foundations with debris thrown for about a half-mile to the northeast. Peak winds were estimated at 120 mph.
June 2005Tornado (F2)Fisher-Well-built garage walls and a roof were torn off a home. Steel grain bins were ripped off their foundations and thrown through the air. A 36x100 foot hip-roofed barn was torn from its foundation and demolished. Peak winds were estimated at 150 mph.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFisher-Several large trees were blown down in a shelterbelt.
July 2002Flash FloodFisher-11.6 inches of rain were measured at a MN DOT RWIS station near Fisher. Numerous farm fields were flooded with water. Some county roads were also closed due to high water.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFisher-A 63 mph wind gust was measured at the MN DOT RWIS site near Fisher.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFisher-A 71 mph wind gust was measured at a MN DOT RWIS site near Fisher.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindFisher-A 59 mph gust was reported by a Minnesota DOT RWIS station.
July 2011HailFisher-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFisher-no account filed
July 2009HailFisher-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFisher-no account filed
August 2006HailFisher-no account filed
May 2005HailFisher-no account filed
May 2005HailFisher-no account filed
May 2005HailFisher-no account filed
August 2001HailFisher-no account filed
August 2001HailFisher-no account filed
June 2000HailFisher-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Fisher-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Fisher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Freeman2.5 miles8
Ross3.3 miles9
Davidson5.8 miles8
Hixon6.8 miles9
Bygland7.0 miles8
Mallory7.9 miles10
Eldred8.2 miles10
Girard8.4 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 FisherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230706The 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 643704. 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.