BlockGarvin, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Garvin City. It lies in ZIP code area 56132. The Survey maps it on the Balaton quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,539 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGarvin fell from 135 to 124 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 | 135 | |
| 2020 | 124 | -11 (-8%) |
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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Balaton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Garvin: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freeburg Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Freeburg Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garvin in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garvin | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including trees greater than 2 1/2 feet in diameter blown down in Garvin Park. The winds also destroyed a barn. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Garvin | - | Water flowed over the road near the intersection of U.S. Highways 59 and 14 after a couple hours of heavy rainfall up to 2 to 3 inches per hour. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for areal and river flooding for Lyon County. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garvin | - | Trees downed in Garvin County Park by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garvin | - | Several power poles were bent or snapped. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garvin | - | A few tree branches downed. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Garvin | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of county roads. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Garvin | - | A short lived tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Garvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Garvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Garvin | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Garvin | - | 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.
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 Garvin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1874006 | 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 644051. 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.
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.