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Georgetown, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Georgetown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56546. It stands on Buffalo River. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Georgetown within Clay County

On record in Georgetown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Georgetown fell from 129 to 86 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
2010129
202086-43 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Storms near this place

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2019FloodGeorgetown$50,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodGeorgetown$5,000Three to five inches of rain fell around the Georgetown area, flooding several township roads and fields.
March 2009FloodGeorgetown$5,000no account filed
April 2009FloodGeorgetown$5,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown$2,000Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown$500Branches were blown down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Estimated 8 inch diameter pine tree snapped a few feet above the ground. Wind gust estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter trees were broken down in farm shelterbelts.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Numerous four to eight inch diameter tree branches and limbs were broken down in shelterbelts across northeast Georgetown Township.
October 2013Funnel CloudGeorgetown-A persistent wall cloud was reported.
August 2011Heavy RainGeorgetown-The thunderstorms dropped 4.70 inches of rain in about two hours.
August 2011HailGeorgetown-Lots of 0.50 to 0.75 inch hail fell.
April 2011FloodGeorgetown-A 73 year old resident of Oakport Township suffered a heart attack and died while he and his family were filling and placing sandbags to protect their home, located north of Moorhead.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Trees were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018HailGeorgetown-no account filed
March 2010FloodGeorgetown-no account filed
September 2005HailGeorgetown-no account filed
August 2004HailGeorgetown-no account filed
June 2003HailGeorgetown-no account filed
August 2002HailGeorgetown-no account filed
June 2001HailGeorgetown-no account filed
July 2001HailGeorgetown-no account filed
July 1999HailGeorgetown-no account filed
July 1999HailGeorgetown-no account filed
July 1999HailGeorgetown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Kragnes6.7 miles25
Oakport10.2 miles25
Moorhead14.3 miles25
Greenwood Communities14.5 miles25
Dilworth14.8 miles24
Averill15.1 miles23
Felton15.3 miles8
Glyndon18.2 miles23

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 GeorgetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231590The 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 644085. 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.