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.
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
John Olness Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresGeorgetown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 86 | -43 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
27 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flood | Georgetown | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Georgetown | $5,000 | Three to five inches of rain fell around the Georgetown area, flooding several township roads and fields. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Georgetown | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Flood | Georgetown | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $2,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $500 | Branches were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Estimated 8 inch diameter pine tree snapped a few feet above the ground. Wind gust estimated. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter trees were broken down in farm shelterbelts. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Numerous four to eight inch diameter tree branches and limbs were broken down in shelterbelts across northeast Georgetown Township. |
| October 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Georgetown | - | A persistent wall cloud was reported. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Georgetown | - | The thunderstorms dropped 4.70 inches of rain in about two hours. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Georgetown | - | Lots of 0.50 to 0.75 inch hail fell. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Georgetown | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Georgetown | - | 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 Georgetown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231590 | 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 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.




