Hanley Falls, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanley Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 56245. The Survey maps it on the Wood Lake quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Hanley Falls within Yellow Medicine County

Population over time

2 figures

Hanley Falls fell from 304 to 243 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	304
2020	243	-61 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Wood Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanley Falls in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	$750,000	Three large grain bins dented, ham radio tower down, numerous trees down. Minor damage to roofs and windows of houses.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	$15,000	There were parts of a grain bin that blew across railroad tracks near Hanley Falls.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	Mesonet station MN033 T.h.23 - Hanley Falls - Mp 94 measured a 79 mph wind gust.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	Mesonet station MN033 T.h.23 - Hanley Falls - Mp 94 measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	A large machine shed was uplifted and blown away in Hanley Falls.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	A measured wind report from the Department of Transportation wind sensor.
June 2019	Hail	Hanley Falls	-	A swath of large hail, up to quarter size, fell around Hanley Falls.
June 2012	Flash Flood	Hanley Falls	-	Several local observers, and the Hanley Falls Post Office reported several roads impassable due to water of the roadway. Specifically, a rural mail carrier from Wood Lake came across 6 sections of roadway, along his delivery route, which had water as deep as 12 inches running across the road near overflowing culverts.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	Measured by MNDOT sensor along Highway 23.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	Measured by MNDOT sensor along Highway 23.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by an automated wind sensor.
June 2003	Hail	Hanley Falls	-	Golf ball size hail landed on the trucks being used by the local fire department during weather spotting.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	Power lines blown down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Hanley Falls	-	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanley Falls	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Hanley Falls	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Hanley Falls	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Hanley Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellow Medicine 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
Lorne	4.5 miles	10
Wood Lake	5.2 miles	10
Hazel Run	6.4 miles	9
Valley Courts	8.7 miles	9
Granite Falls	9.0 miles	9
Normania	10.4 miles	9
Clarkfield	12.0 miles	9
Echo	12.0 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 Hanley Falls	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231667	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 644628. 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.