Gary, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gary City. It lies in ZIP code area 56545. The Survey maps it on the Twin Valley quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGary grew from 214 to 227 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 | 214 | |
| 2020 | 227 | +13 (+6%) |
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.
- 1918 USGS Twin Valley quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Twin Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gary in 2011, burning about 140 acres 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | 140 acres | Glacial Ridge | GODFREY 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gary: 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gary in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gary | $20,000 | A church steeple was blown off. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gary | $500 | Branches were blown down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gary | - | Public relays report of mature choke cherry tree blown down. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Gary | - | A brief touchdown was noted in pasture land east of highway 32 and just south of county road 15. Heavy rain quickly cut off the view of the storm. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gary | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Gary | - | A rain wrapped funnel cloud was reported. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Gary | - | Heavy rain and strong winds were also noted. Large tree branches were blown down around the yard. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gary | - | Large trees were blown down. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Gary | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Gary | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Gary | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Gary | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Gary | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Gary | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Gary | - | 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 Gary | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231769 | 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 644055. 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.





