Hancock, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hancock City. It lies in ZIP code area 56244. The Survey maps it on the Hancock quadrangle. 863 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Hancock within Stevens County

Population over time

2 figures

Hancock grew from 765 to 863 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	765
2020	863	+98 (+13%)

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.

1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hancock in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 7 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Hancock	-	This tornado developed in Swift County, about 5 miles southwest of Danvers and tracked north until an outflow boundary caught up with it, then the tornado tracked northeast to 7 miles northwest of Clontarf. It moved through the southeast corner of Stevens County, then into Pope County, where it dissipated. Several wooden poles with electrical transmission lines were snapped. Irrigation systems were overturned, trees were damaged, and some structural damage to homes and farm outbuildings also resulted. Maximum winds were estimated at 100 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	There were several large tree limbs blown down near Hancock.
June 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Hancock	-	Multiple videos showed a tornado moving across some fields.
June 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Hancock	-	Multiple videos from storm chasers and others showed this tornado mostly moved along the eastern shore of Long Lake, east of Morris. Occasional tree damage occurred on the eastern shore, where over 100 trees, including some oaks, were broken or uprooted. More trees were felled on the northeast end of Long Lake. An electrical substation just northeast of Long Lake was damaged shortly before the tornado dissipated. Two barn doors were blown off and some shingles were removed from a house.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	A few trees were blown down in the city of Hancock.
August 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Hancock	-	A storm chaser photographed a condensation funnel with debris cloud. Branches were knocked down and then the tornado moved across bare ground, kicking up the debris cloud. Another storm chaser photographed the condensation funnel but was too far away to see the debris cloud.
August 2012	Hail	Hancock	-	The weather observer estimated that it hailed for ten minutes.
August 2012	Hail	Hancock	-	The observer estimated that it hailed for ten minutes, and damaged some of their corn and bean crops.
June 2012	Hail	Hancock	-	Hail lasted for 5 to 7 minutes with the largest stone up to golf ball size.
June 2007	Hail	Hancock	-	Most hailstones were the size of quarters.
June 2005	Hail	Hancock	-	Quarter sized hail covered the ground and damaged crops.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	A chicken barn and a few sheds were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	A tree was downed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	Grain elevator tipped over. Barn down. Numerous trees felled.
June 2017	Hail	Hancock	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Hancock	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hancock	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hancock	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Hancock	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hancock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Morris	8.7 miles	12
Alberta	14.3 miles	9
Donnelly	17.6 miles	9
Chokio	20.6 miles	9

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 Hancock	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q943662	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 644616. 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.