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.
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
- Jacob Nuffer Farmsteadlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresHills 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 686 | |
| 2020 | 686 | 0 (0%) |
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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Hills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Hills | - | Penny size hail was accompanied by heavy rain. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 3 large trees blown down. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Hills | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several low lying areas including fields, yards, and some roads. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 5 foot long branches blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | - | 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 2004 | Hail | Hills | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | - | Thunderstorm winds caused an undetermined amount of tree damage. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Hills | - | Thunderstorm winds of unknown speed blew down a large tree onto a truck. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Hills | - | A small tornado touched down briefly uprooting several trees. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hills | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and damaged a number of buildings across eastern Rock County |
| August 2021 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Hills | - | 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 Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q932978 | 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 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.



