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Gibbon, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gibbon City. It lies in ZIP code area 55335. The Survey maps it on the Gibbon quadrangle. 784 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Gibbon within Sibley County

On record in Gibbon

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

Gibbon grew from 772 to 784 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
2010772
2020784+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibbon in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 19 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2003Tornado (F2)Gibbon$1,000,000The third tornado in a series touched down in Sibley County and moved straight north, occasionally stalling in place for minutes at a time. It heavily damaged two farmsteads, where all outbuildings and sheds were destroyed, and the houses sustained significant damage. It entered Renville County at 1845 CST and then into Buffalo Lake.
April 2022HailGibbon-Although half dollar size hail was reported west of Gibbons, based on radar, the hail was likely larger between Gibbon and Lafayette.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGibbon-A trained spotter noted that a few trees were blown down around her farm.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGibbon-A power pole was blown down on County Road 2 in Gibbon.
July 2020HailGibbon-The swath of large hail, up to 2.5 inches in diameter, and the continued wind driven hail, occurred in the northern part of Sibley County, southwest and south of Stewart. Major crop damage continued along this path.
July 2020Flash FloodGibbon-There were numerous roads that had water flowing over them, some up to one foot high. This occurred across southern Sibley County, mainly south of Highway 19, south to the Nicollet County line.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Gibbon-A storm chaser provided video of a brief tornado that moved across some fields before it dissipated. No crop damage was noted.
August 2017Funnel CloudGibbon-A storm chaser filmed a separate funnel cloud prior to a tornado at 1821 CST. The funnel might have touched down, but it was not possible to determine this.
August 2016Heavy RainGibbon-An individual measured 6.70 inches of rain in Gibbon.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindGibbon-A large tree was blown down.
June 2012HailGibbon-Crop damage was reported due to the combination of strong winds and hail around Gibbon.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGibbon-Numerous large tree branches and several road signs were blown down.
September 2005HailGibbon-Law enforcement reported dime sized hail covering the ground.
July 2004HailGibbon-Corn was stripped by hail.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGibbon-Tree tops and branches were downed.
June 2003Tornado (F1)Gibbon-The fourth tornado in a series developed 20 minutes after Buffalo Lake was hit. It touched down briefly in Sibley County, tracked across an open field before moving into Renville County at 1912 CST.
June 2003Tornado (F1)Gibbon-This tornado moved in from Renville County at 1755, then dissipated as it moved alongside a farmstead. A few trees were knocked down, and there was minor property damage.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Gibbon-The second tornado in a series touched down briefly in Sibley County before crossing into Renville County at 1831 CST.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGibbon-Two six inch diameter tree limbs down.
October 1997HailGibbon-Hail covered ground.
August 2024HailGibbon-no account filed
July 2022HailGibbon-no account filed
July 2022HailGibbon-no account filed
September 2020HailGibbon-no account filed
July 2017HailGibbon-no account filed
July 2012HailGibbon-no account filed
July 2012HailGibbon-no account filed
May 2011HailGibbon-no account filed
June 2010HailGibbon-no account filed
June 2005HailGibbon-no account filed
June 2005HailGibbon-no account filed
June 2001HailGibbon-no account filed
October 1998HailGibbon-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Gibbon-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindGibbon-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGibbon-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGibbon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sibley 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
Winthrop8.5 miles10
Gaylord16.3 miles11
New Auburn18.4 miles11
New Rome23.0 miles11
Arlington24.2 miles11
Rush River25.6 miles9
Green Isle29.2 miles11
Jessenland32.1 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 GibbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924501The 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 644116. 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.