Graceville, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Graceville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56240. The Survey maps it on the Graceville quadrangle. 529 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.
On record in Graceville
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
Graceville Historical Markerlisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresGraceville fell from 577 to 529 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 | 577 | |
| 2020 | 529 | -48 (-8%) |
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.
- 1950 USGS Graceville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Graceville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graceville in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | Hail stones were estimated at 3 inches, resulting in blown out windows and damage to the roof at the residence. Windows on vehicles were also smashed. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | An estimated sixty mph wind took the top off an evergreen tree. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | Eighty mph winds collapsed the walls of a machine shed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | Seventy mph winds damaged a grain elevator. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | Winds to 70 mph blew down some trees near Graceville. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | Winds gusting to 60 mph downed a large tree at Tocqua Park near Graceville. The tree fell on a camper and destroyed it. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Graceville | - | A 1 by 2 square mile area of soybeans was destroyed. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Graceville | - | The combination of large hail and strong winds destroyed over 120,000 acres of crops. Estimated damage costs were up to $15 million across Big Stone County |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Stone Colony | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Barry | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Johnson | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Clinton | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Lagoona Beach | 14.3 miles | 7 | |
| Beardsley | 14.7 miles | 12 | |
| Foster | 16.6 miles | 8 | |
| Bonanza Grove | 16.9 miles | 8 |
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 Graceville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231733 | 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 644309. 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.




