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Gully, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gully City. It lies in ZIP code area 56646. The Survey maps it on the Gully quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

Gully within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Gully fell from 66 to 59 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
201066
202059-7 (-11%)

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.

Fires near this place

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Gully between 1994 and 2017, burning about 8,356 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 were 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
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use38 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1994Debris and open burning3.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2005Arson/incendiarism120 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gully: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 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
Broin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Polk County Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Northern Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weberg Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gully in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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
August 2001Tornado (F1)Gully$75,000An auto repair shop had its roof torn off. Many trees were uprooted, falling on signs, powerlines, homes, and garages. Several grain bins were destroyed.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGully$5,00036 oak and ash trees were uprooted.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGully$1,000Trees were blown down along Highway 92.
July 2023HailGully-Ping pong ball sized hail in Gully. Relayed via social media, time estimated by radar.
May 2022HailGully-Received a report of 1.75-inch hail via social media.
May 2022HailGully-Hail began around 720 am CDT and increased in size through around 725 am CDT. Report and photo relayed via social media.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGully-A few 3 to 5 inch diameter tree branches were blown down along with some dime to nickel sized hail.
July 2016HailGully-A few dime to quarter sized hail fell and broken tree branches were reported near the Gully Wildlife Management Area.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGully-Numerous large tree branches and limbs were broken down across far northeast Polk County, resulting in widespread power outages.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGully-Many large tree branches were blown down and a few trees were snapped off.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Gully-A tornado travelled through a pasture and a grove of trees.
August 1993Tornado (F0)Gully-A tornado touched down briefly near Gully uprooting trees and damaging several farm buildings.
May 2007HailGully-no account filed
June 1999HailGully-no account filed
June 1999HailGully-no account filed
July 1999Tornado (F0)Gully-no account filed
August 1999HailGully-no account filed
July 1998HailGully-no account filed
July 1998HailGully-no account filed
August 1997HailGully-no account filed
June 1997HailGully-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
Trail3.8 miles11
Olga6.0 miles10
West View Court14.9 miles10
Fosston14.9 miles10
McIntosh16.7 miles11
Lengby17.5 miles10
Erskine21.7 miles9
Winger25.2 miles9

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 GullyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q946786The 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 644533. 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.