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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.

Graceville within Big Stone County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Graceville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010577
2020529-48 (-8%)

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

29 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024HailGraceville-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 2020Thunderstorm WindGraceville-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGraceville-An estimated sixty mph wind took the top off an evergreen tree.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGraceville-Eighty mph winds collapsed the walls of a machine shed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGraceville-Seventy mph winds damaged a grain elevator.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGraceville-Winds to 70 mph blew down some trees near Graceville.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGraceville-Winds gusting to 60 mph downed a large tree at Tocqua Park near Graceville. The tree fell on a camper and destroyed it.
June 1997HailGraceville-A 1 by 2 square mile area of soybeans was destroyed.
July 1994HailGraceville-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 2025Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
July 2024HailGraceville-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
June 2008HailGraceville-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGraceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Stone 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
Big Stone Colony3.5 miles8
Barry6.7 miles12
Johnson7.4 miles8
Clinton7.5 miles7
Lagoona Beach14.3 miles7
Beardsley14.7 miles12
Foster16.6 miles8
Bonanza Grove16.9 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 GracevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231733The 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.