BlockHatfield, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hatfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 56164. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton North quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,683 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHatfield fell from 54 to 53 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 | 54 | |
| 2020 | 53 | -1 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Edgerton North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
3,663 words on this townshipAn Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Hatfield City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
On the Milwaukee railroad, seven miles southeast of Pipestone, is Hatfield, a village containing a postoffice, one or two stores, a school and a church. It is in the exact center of section 3-5, Grange township. The village was one of the first established in the county, and it has a history extending over a period of nearly thirty-two years.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.
The beginnings of a town were made in 1880. the first improvement being a windmill.- \ side track was laid late in August, and the initial building improvement followed soon after. The Colman Lumber company established a lumber yard, and a grain warehouse was put up by Bonner & Hyde, who bought grain that fall. In November n store building graced the site, erected by I. N. Converse, who started a general store. Soon after the postoffice was established with Mr. Converse as postmaster.^ has been christened Hatfield, and. although its onl.v semblance to a town is the rather metropolitan aspect of its windmill aforesaid, there are vast possibilities susceptible of development, .and we see no reason why it shouldn't become a great commercial center."
Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.
In tlie years that liave elapsed since Hatfield was given a place on the map, the village has only slightly outgrown its original proportions. The townsite, made to consist of thirteen hlocks, was surveyed November 6, 1882, by George B. Woodworth. Three years later, on December -S. 1885, the plat was dedicated by Samuel H. Graves, acting for the land firm of Close Bros. & Co. In 18S.T Close Bros. & Co. threatened to establish lipadquarters at Hatfield, instead nf at Pipestone, but this did not eventuate, the people of Pipestone granting certain concessions demanded by the land company.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Hatfield City - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hatfield: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Rv Wash Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatfield in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hatfield | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a machine shed. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Hatfield | - | Rainfall since daybreak was measured at 5.62 inches. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Hatfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Hatfield | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hatfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230598 | 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 644720. 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.
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.