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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.

Gary within Norman County

Population over time

2 figures

Gary 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.

YearPeople Change
2010214
2020227+13 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 May 2011Debris and open burning140 acresGlacial RidgeGODFREY 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Norman County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jackson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Norman County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGary$20,000A church steeple was blown off.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGary$500Branches were blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGary-Public relays report of mature choke cherry tree blown down.
August 2020Tornado (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 2020Thunderstorm WindGary-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2020Funnel CloudGary-A rain wrapped funnel cloud was reported.
June 2018HailGary-Heavy rain and strong winds were also noted. Large tree branches were blown down around the yard.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGary-Large trees were blown down.
May 2019HailGary-no account filed
August 2019HailGary-no account filed
July 2006HailGary-no account filed
August 2005HailGary-no account filed
June 2003HailGary-no account filed
August 2000HailGary-no account filed
August 2000HailGary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Norman 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
Flaming5.9 miles9
Heiberg6.1 miles10
Sundal6.9 miles8
Waukon7.2 miles8
Twin Valley7.7 miles10
Ranum9.3 miles8
Fossum10.4 miles10
Faith10.7 miles8

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 GaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231769The 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.