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Greenview, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Russia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56716. The Survey maps it on the Greenview quadrangle.

Greenview within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenview in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindGreenview$50,000Numerous trees and large tree limbs were snapped in farmsteads and shelter belts across northern Scandia and far southern Hammond townships.
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Greenview$5,000A tornado wrapped in damaging winds... large hail and heavy rains tracked intermittently across portions of the Chicog Wildlife Management Area. Numerous trees were snapped and large tree limbs were broken down along this path. peak winds estimated to 90 mph.
June 2023Tornado (EFU)Greenview-Spotter called about a tornado forming in a field. Subsequent video showed the tornado lifting in the field at the end point. It occurred remained in an open field, which mitigated any damage. Therefore, the rating of EF-U has been assigned with an estimated path width and length.
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Greenview-This thin rope-like tornado was observed from a point about six miles east of Nielsville, Minnesota. The tornado tracked through open farm fields. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2001HailGreenview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Beltrami6.0 miles9
Harold6.2 miles8
Burwell8.8 miles9
Melvin9.1 miles8
Wilds9.2 miles10
Girard9.3 miles10
Riverview Terrace9.4 miles9
Carman Terrace9.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654736. 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.