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Hammond, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hammond City. It lies in ZIP code area 55991. The Survey maps it on the Millville quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Hammond within Wabasha County

Population over time

2 figures

Hammond fell from 132 to 130 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
2010132
2020130-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 1992 and 2008, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1992Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabasha County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hammond: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hart QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oelkers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Roberson Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thiel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this place

12 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammond in 12 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
September 2010FloodHammond$4,590,000Major flooding occurred in the town of Hammond due to record flooding on the Zumbro River. Of the 75 homes in the town, 19 were damaged and 20 were destroyed. Power, water and septic services were down in the town for several days. Businesses in the town also saw extensive damage.
October 2013LightningHammond$149,000A house south of Zumbro Falls was destroyed by a fire apparently started from a lightning strike. Nobody was home at the time of the fire and two fire departments were on the scene for five hours.
May 2022HailHammond$55,000Up to tennis ball sized hail fell southwest of Hammond.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindHammond$10,000A tree was blown down on a car in Hammond.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHammond-Trained spotters reported multiple large trees of 30 to 40 feet high down along the west side of Zumbro Lake.
May 2023HailHammond-Volunteer observers reported penny sized hail in Hammond on the evening of May 6th.
May 2022HailHammond-Quarter sized hail was reported in Hammond.
May 2022HailHammond-Quarter sized hail fell just south of Hammond.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHammond-Trees were blown down on a farm in southwest Wabasha County.
April 2017HailHammond-Quarter sized hail was reported in Hammond.
April 2017HailHammond-Quarter sized hail was reported southwest of Hammond.
May 2017HailHammond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha 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
Jarrett2.1 miles15
South Troy3.3 miles16
Bremen3.5 miles15
Millville4.4 miles15
Zumbro Falls4.9 miles13
West Albany7.2 miles13
Bear Valley7.9 miles13
Elgin9.1 miles15

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 HammondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231642The 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 644609. 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.