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Glenwood, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Glenwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 56334. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle. 2,657 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

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Glenwood within Pope County

On record in Glenwood

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glenwood grew from 2,564 to 2,657 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
20102,564
20202,657+93 (+4%)

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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 1999 and 2000, burning about 5 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 burning2

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
28 April 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope 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 Glenwood: 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
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

55 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 55 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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
July 1997Flash FloodGlenwood$100,0003 inches of rain in 45 minutes resulted in basement flooding. Damage estimate for entire county.
August 1999LightningGlenwood$50,000Small fire in Church bell tower.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$25,000Several large trees, and powerlines were blown down in Glenwood, some were blocking roads. South of Kensington, several larger tree branches were blown down. Other areas along highway 55 had some tree branches blown down. Trees and powerlines also blown down on the east side of Grove Lake, with two reported pontoons flipped over on Lake Minnewaska.
June 2003Tornado (F1)Glenwood$10,000Brief touchdown on the southeast shore of Lake Minnewaska. Tornado flipped over a camper and knocked down trees, some of which fell on the roof of a cabin.
June 2005Flash FloodGlenwood$1,000A dirt berm had to be constructed on Highway 28-29 to stop flood waters from flowing across the highway near the fairgrounds on the northwest side of town. Low lying property and a few roads nearby were flooded. An estimated 2.5 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes in Glenwood.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Trees and power lines reported down in Glenwood.
July 2023HailGlenwood-A report of 1 inch hail was received via MPing.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Glenwood-A tornado originated on the east side of Lake Reno in Pope County. At first, it damaged about a dozen trees, but quickly became more intense and broke or uprooted several hundred trees before entering Douglas County. Maximum winds for the Pope County portion were estimated at 105 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-A trained spotter had a hand held wind sensor that measured the wind gust.
June 2020HailGlenwood-A social media picture of quarter size hail was noted.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Two pontoon boats were flipped over on Lake Minnewaska near Glenwood.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-An 8 inch diameter tree was blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Five inch diameter tree branches downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Several trees and power lines were downed. A truck was damaged on First Avenue SW by a downed tree. A home on First Avenue NE was struck by a pine tree that was snapped off at its base. A city vehicle shed was blown apart on the north side of town and the roof was deposited 100 yards away. Several downed trees blocked South Lakeshore Drive. Several pontoon boats and the lifts they were attached to were blown into Lake Minnewaska.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Trees were downed at Lake Pelican and along the eastern shore of Lake Minnewaska. One tree was downed onto a pickup truck. Trees was also downed in the city of Glenwood, including several that were felled in Barsness Park. In addition, trees were downed at Minnewaska Golf Club just west of town.
June 2005HailGlenwood-Quarter sized hail fell between County Road 18 and Highway 29 from Starbuck to Long Beach to Glenwood.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Several trees toppled.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Numerous trees down, including one on a house. Boats and docks were thrown out of the water on the east side of Lake Minnewaska.
June 2003Flash FloodGlenwood-County wide flooding. After two bouts of heavy rain on June 22 and 23, three to four additional inches fell, resulting in widespread street and basement flooding in Glenwood. The sewer system was also overloaded. Four familes in the northwest section of Glenwood were evacuated when the water level reached a depth of four feet in their neighborhood.
June 2003Funnel CloudGlenwood-Videotaped by storm chasers.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Shed down, irrigator blown over.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Few trees and power poles down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Trees and power lines down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1998Flash FloodGlenwood-Street and basement flooding.
August 1998FloodGlenwood-3 to 4 inches of rain in less than 2 hours resulted in street flooding.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Power poles down. Estimated windspeed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
May 2022HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2016HailGlenwood-no account filed
September 2014HailGlenwood-no account filed
August 2013HailGlenwood-no account filed
May 2012HailGlenwood-no account filed
May 2011HailGlenwood-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudGlenwood-no account filed
July 2010HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2007HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2007HailGlenwood-no account filed
August 2006HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2005HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2005HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2003HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2003HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 2003HailGlenwood-no account filed
September 2002HailGlenwood-no account filed
May 1996HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 1996HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudGlenwood-no account filed
July 1996HailGlenwood-no account filed
August 1996HailGlenwood-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
July 1996HailGlenwood-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
July 1996HailGlenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Long Beach1.5 miles8
Pine Hill Park3.4 miles9
Lowry7.8 miles8
Villard7.8 miles10
Starbuck7.9 miles9
Sedan9.1 miles8
Terrace10.4 miles9
Grove Lake12.6 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 GlenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924412The 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 644185. 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.