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Henning, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Henning City. It lies in ZIP code area 56551. The Survey maps it on the Henning quadrangle. 854 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Henning within Otter Tail County

On record in Henning

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Henning grew from 802 to 854 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.

YearPeople Change
2010802
2020854+52 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

23 words on this township

Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Henning City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Henning City - 23 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Henning between 1998 and 2019, burning about 110 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 May 2005Equipment and vehicle use18 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2019Smoking1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance32 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Henning: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Uranium ProspectUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Henning in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 1996Tornado (F2)Henning1 hurt, $400,000This tornado followed a track through eastern Otter Tail county, with the first damage report along Highway 210. A man stopped his car along the road when he saw the threatening clouds. The tornado picked his car up and spun it around, with the man inside. The car windows were all broken, but the man only sustained cuts on his hands. The tornado destroyed several farm buildings, one full of dairy cows. 21 of the cows were killed. The last damage report was just west of New York Mills. Two deer hunters were in tree stands when the storm approached. One managed to get down to the ground and lay flat, but the other clung to the tree as the tornado passed. As the wind died down, the man found his tree was the only one left standing in a grove of 36 around him. Neither man was injured.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHenning$10,000Power poles were blown down by the strong wind. A tree also fell on the city playground equipment, causing a total loss. A new church being constructed was also flattened.
July 2024HailHenning-Trained spotter reports half dollar to ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2023HailHenning-Off-duty park ranger reported dime to quarter-sized hail east of Henning. Power is out and many trees are down in the area.
June 2022HailHenning-Golf ball to baseball sized hail was reported around the Henning area. Photos and reports posted via social media.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHenning-A 10 inch diameter poplar tree was snapped about 8 feet off the ground.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindHenning-A few four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down in groves and shelterbelts across east central Henning Township.
August 2011HailHenning-Pea to penny sized hail fell.
June 2006Tornado (F1)Henning-Numerous 8 to 10 inch tree limbs were snapped or twisted off along the damage path near highway 210. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHenning-A semi truck and trailer were blown off U.S. Highway 10 and overturned.
August 2018HailHenning-no account filed
August 2015HailHenning-no account filed
July 2008HailHenning-no account filed
September 2005HailHenning-no account filed
July 2003HailHenning-no account filed
April 2003HailHenning-no account filed
June 2001HailHenning-no account filed
June 2001HailHenning-no account filed
July 2000HailHenning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Woodland Park4.8 miles13
Leaf City (historical)6.1 miles9
Vining6.3 miles13
Almora6.7 miles9
Nirvana7.7 miles13
Deer Creek8.1 miles9
Ottertail9.3 miles13
Heinola9.5 miles9

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 HenningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230676The 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 644879. 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.

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.