Jeffers, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amboy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56145. The Survey maps it on the Jeffers quadrangle. 349 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.
On record in Jeffers
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
Jeffers Petroglyphs Sitelisted 1970
Population over time
2 figuresJeffers fell from 369 to 349 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 | 369 | |
| 2020 | 349 | -20 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Jeffers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jeffers in 1994, burning about 95 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 95 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | LAKE AUGUSTA (RX/WF) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeffers in 41 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 21 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Jeffers | $100,000 | A tornado destroyed a barn and damaged other farm buildings. The tornado also caused crop damage, but the amount of crop damage was not determined. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Jeffers | $5,000 | A tornado damaged outbuildings and caused tree damage. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN070 4 miles east-northeast of Jeffers. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 74 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN070 4 miles east-northeast of Jeffers. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Numerous 8 to 10 inch limbs downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Numerous tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Jeffers | - | A tornado developed 5 miles north of Jeffers along 430th Avenue, one-quarter mile north of County Road 10. The tornado caused damage to crops as it moved north-northeast over open farmland. Sentinel satellite imagery revealed a possible brief lift around 230th Street. The tornado dissipated along 440th Avenue, one-half mile south of 210th St. The average path width was 20 yards. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Crops were blown over by strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree, from one to two feet in diameter, in half. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Minnesota RWIS station MN071 4 miles east northeast of Jeffers measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Measured at Minnesota Department of Transportation's RWIS. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Jeffers | - | Rainfall of 2.20 inches was measured in one hour. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Jeffers | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. The winds were accompanied by quarter size hail. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Jeffers | - | Large hail was accompanied by estimated 60 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Jeffers | - | Large hail severely damaged crops in the area, particularly corn, with bruising of stalks being the main damage. The hail also dented some vehicles. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | A thunderstorm wind gust was recorded by automated RWIS (road weather information system) equipment. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Jeffers | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Jeffers | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storden | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Delft | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Westbrook | 12.7 miles | 10 | |
| Bingham Lake | 13.0 miles | 7 | |
| Windom | 13.7 miles | 7 | |
| Mountain Lake | 16.3 miles | 7 |
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 Jeffers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231601 | 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 645595. 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.





