BlockForest City, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Forest City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55355. The Survey maps it on the Forest City quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.
On record in Forest City
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
Bridge No. 90980listed 1997
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Dassel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Forest City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest City in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forest City | - | Delayed report, time estimated from radar. Two trees were down across roads. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forest City | - | Several trees were blown down near Forest City. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Forest City | - | Hail up to the size of quarters fell on Highway 24. A car was dented by the hail. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Forest City | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Forest City | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Litchfield | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Watkins | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kingston | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Darwin | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Manannah | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Eden Valley | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Casey | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| West View Terrace | 11.8 miles | 10 |
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 Forest City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18150949 | 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 643796. 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.