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Genola, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pierz Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56364. It stands on Skunk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pierz quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Genola within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Genola fell from 75 to 70 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
201075
202070-5 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Genola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,338 acres in total. None started naturally. 60 were 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
Arson/incendiarism60
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison 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 Genola: 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
Banach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Genola in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Tornado (EF1)Genola-The tornado hit several farms before moving into Lastrup and dissipating. It ripped most of the roof off of two barns west and northwest of Pierz, then continued northeast to Lastrup, where it knocked down or broke large limbs of dozens of trees and tore off half of the roof of an outbuilding. Drone video from the Sheriff's Office showed a convergent damage pattern in Lastrup, and the damage survey showed a convergent pattern at several locations before the tornado hit Lastrup.
July 2010HailGenola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Pierz1.6 miles10
Buckman4.5 miles10
Lastrup6.1 miles12
Vawter7.6 miles10
Freedhem8.2 miles12
Little Rock8.9 miles10
Platte10.2 miles12
Morrill11.4 miles11

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 GenolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2219703The 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 644071. 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.