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Hills, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Martin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56138. The Survey maps it on the Hills quadrangle. 686 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,486 feet above sea level.

Hills within Rock County

On record in Hills

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hills grew from 686 to 686 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
2010686
20206860 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hills in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHills$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHills-Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down several trees with trunks 2 to 3 feet in diameter. | Power lines were taken down as well, which resulted in a 3 hour outage.
May 2013HailHills-Penny size hail was accompanied by heavy rain.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHills-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 3 large trees blown down.
August 2010Flash FloodHills-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several low lying areas including fields, yards, and some roads.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHills-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 5 foot long branches blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHills-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, including several trees blown down. One falling tree destroyed a fence. The damage also resulted in a power outage.
May 2004HailHills-Large hail covered the ground.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHills-Thunderstorm winds caused an undetermined amount of tree damage.
July 1995HailHills-Thunderstorm winds of unknown speed blew down a large tree onto a truck.
June 1994Tornado (F0)Hills-A small tornado touched down briefly uprooting several trees.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHills-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and damaged a number of buildings across eastern Rock County
August 2021HailHills-no account filed
August 2021HailHills-no account filed
April 2015HailHills-no account filed
August 2012HailHills-no account filed
August 2012HailHills-no account filed
September 2010HailHills-no account filed
July 2008HailHills-no account filed
May 2005HailHills-no account filed
June 2005HailHills-no account filed
April 2002HailHills-no account filed
August 2002HailHills-no account filed
June 2001HailHills-no account filed
July 1999HailHills-no account filed
June 1998HailHills-no account filed
July 1998HailHills-no account filed
July 1998HailHills-no account filed
July 1996HailHills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock 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
Bruce2.1 miles8
Steen5.1 miles8
Manley5.8 miles8
Beaver Creek5.9 miles8
Ash Creek8.7 miles8
Luverne11.6 miles8
Kanaranzi14.4 miles7
Magnolia16.9 miles7

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 HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q932978The 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 644996. 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.