Frost, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Frost City. It lies in ZIP code area 56033. The Survey maps it on the Frost quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Frost within Faribault County

Population over time

2 figures

Frost grew from 198 to 216 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	198
2020	216	+18 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Bricelyn quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Frost quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frost in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2017	Hail	Frost	-	A swath of large hail, up to ping pong size, fell along the Iowa, Minnesota border south of Frost, northeast to north of Bricelyn.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frost	-	A local trained weather observer measured 5.10 inches of rainfall near Frost between Wednesday afternoon, September 21st, to the early morning of Thursday, September 22nd.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Frost	-	Scattered large tree branches were blown down along Highway 254, between Frost and Interstate 90.
October 2006	Hail	Frost	-	Hail damaged crops in the Frost area as reported by Faribault County Farm Service Agency Director Kevin Beckman. An estimated one thousand acres of soybean fields throughout the county were impacted by hail, according to Mr. Beckman. As reported by the Faribault County Register newspaper.
June 1999	Hail	Frost	-	Roads turned white due to extensive hail. Crop damage also reported.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Frost	-	Doors blown in at fire station. Estimated windspeed.
July 2012	Hail	Frost	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Frost	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Frost	-	no account filed
May 1996	Lightning	Frost	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Frost	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faribault 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dell	2.7 miles	8
Marna	4.5 miles	6
Brush Creek	5.8 miles	8
Bricelyn	6.3 miles	8
Blue Earth	10.0 miles	7
Elmore	10.2 miles	6
Riverside Heights	11.1 miles	7
Kiester	11.9 miles	8

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 Frost	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230717	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 643976. 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.