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Haydenville, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56256. The Survey maps it on the Haydenville quadrangle.

Haydenville within Lac qui Parle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Haydenville in 1996, burning about 29 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
Debris and open burning1

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
2 May 1996Debris and open burning29 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeLARSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lac qui Parle County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haydenville in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindHaydenville1 hurt, $1,000,000Hog barn collapse resulted in one injury. Damage estimate for entire county.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Haydenville-The tornado developed over a field and moved toward a home where it knocked down a couple trees and produced some other tree damage. Four different videos from various locations enabled determination of its track to the east, as it moved over more fields before dissipating. The maximum estimated wind was 90 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHaydenville-Tops broken off trees.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Haydenville-A storm chaser videotaped a brief touchdown of a weak tornado in an open field. This tornado was also witnessed by law enforcement.
May 2005HailHaydenville-Hail up to 2 inches in diameter fell in a band beginning 2 miles north and ½ mile west of Haydenville and continued northeast for 5 miles to just south of Bellingham. A storm chaser just south of Bellingham said that the 2 inch diameter hail covered the road. Storm chasers also reported 1.75 inch diameter hail 3 miles south of Bellingham and 1.50 inch diameter hail in Bellingham.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHaydenville-A building was damaged at a farm along Highway 212 in Garfield Township, Section 19.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindHaydenville-Silo and machine shed destroyed. Estimated windspeed.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindHaydenville-Structural and farm equipment damage. Estimated windspeed.
July 2008HailHaydenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lac qui Parle 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
Marietta5.7 miles8
Madison6.0 miles6
Nassau7.9 miles8
Bellingham8.8 miles7
Rosen11.1 miles7
Louisburg13.1 miles6
Dawson14.5 miles8
Cerro Gordo15.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644788. 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.

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.