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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.

Jeffers within Cottonwood County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Jeffers 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.

YearPeople Change
2010369
2020349-20 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 1994

Regional 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 burning1

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
11 May 1994Debris and open burning95 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictLAKE AUGUSTA (RX/WF)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottonwood County

Storms near this place

41 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Tornado (F1)Jeffers$100,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindJeffers$50,000no account filed
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Jeffers$5,000A tornado damaged outbuildings and caused tree damage.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN070 4 miles east-northeast of Jeffers.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A thunderstorm wind gust of 74 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN070 4 miles east-northeast of Jeffers.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Numerous 8 to 10 inch limbs downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Numerous tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2021Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Crops were blown over by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree, from one to two feet in diameter, in half.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Minnesota RWIS station MN071 4 miles east northeast of Jeffers measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Measured at Minnesota Department of Transportation's RWIS.
May 2013Heavy RainJeffers-Rainfall of 2.20 inches was measured in one hour.
August 2013HailJeffers-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. The winds were accompanied by quarter size hail.
September 2010HailJeffers-Large hail was accompanied by estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2003HailJeffers-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 2002Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A thunderstorm wind gust was recorded by automated RWIS (road weather information system) equipment.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
July 2020HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJeffers-no account filed
August 2017HailJeffers-no account filed
September 2015HailJeffers-no account filed
May 2013HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2010HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindJeffers-no account filed
July 2006HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2005HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2005HailJeffers-no account filed
July 2003HailJeffers-no account filed
July 2002HailJeffers-no account filed
May 2000HailJeffers-no account filed
July 2000HailJeffers-no account filed
June 1997HailJeffers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cottonwood 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
Storden6.6 miles9
Delft7.5 miles7
Westbrook12.7 miles10
Bingham Lake13.0 miles7
Windom13.7 miles7
Mountain Lake16.3 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 JeffersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231601The 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.