Hendricks, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hendricks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56136. The Survey maps it on the Hendricks quadrangle. 616 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,788 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHendricks fell from 713 to 616 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 | 713 | |
| 2020 | 616 | -97 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Hendricks quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
42 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hendricks in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Hendricks | $200,000 | Flooding of lakes, streams, and lowlands, including some farmland, continued in the county through April. While flooding of small streams abated, lake and lowland flooding continued with very slow improvement. Several roads remained flooded. High water and groundwater levels resulting from record precipitation in the previous year was the main reason that the flooding either grew worse or improved so slowly. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including trees four feet in diameter blown down. A barn was blown down, and the roof of another building was blown off. Power lines and poles were blown down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | $20,000 | Thunderstorms winds blew over a semi tractor trailer. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several grain bins. The winds were accompanied by small hail. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | $2,000 | A large barn door was blown in and bent. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | $500 | Damage occurred to small to moderate tree limbs. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Hendricks. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees and powerlines near the intersection of County Roads 15 and 1. Damage extended further east with minor property damage near the intersection of County Road 15 and 103. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Hendricks | - | Hail varied in size from pea to golf ball. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Hendricks | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 68 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN029 5 miles south of Hendricks. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Minnesota RWIS station MN030, 3 miles south southwest of Hendricks, measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Minnesota RWIS station MN030 3 miles south of Hendricks measured a peak wind gust of 70 mph. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Hendricks | - | Intermittent hail up to dime size. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorms produced large hail which caused a 3 mile wide swath of nearly total crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known, but the USDA office reported that soybean crops were affected more than corn, and several bean fields were later replanted. Vehicles were also damaged by hail. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down limbs and flattened corn. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Hendricks | - | Melting of a heavy winter snow cover caused flooding of lowlands, lakes, and small streams, including considerable flooding of farmland. Numerous roads in the county were flooded. Some of the roads were closed, and some were washed out in spots. The flooding onset was rapid for a snow melt flood due to high water and groundwater levels from record precipitation in the year 2010. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous branches, leaving tree debris in yards and streets. The winds were accompanied by large hail and very heavy rain. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Hendricks | - | Large hail was accompanied by damaging winds and very heavy rain. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several branches. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Hendricks | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of roads, fields, and other low areas. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Hendricks | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and power line damage. The winds also caused crop damage, mainly consisting of corn being blown over. The amount of crop damage was not known, especially since much of the corn recovered to some degree within a few days after the event. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hendricks | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Hendricks | - | 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 Hendricks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230547 | 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 644865. 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.



