BlockJohnson, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Moonshine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56236. The Survey maps it on the Johnson quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJohnson fell from 29 to 24 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 | 29 | |
| 2020 | 24 | -5 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1950 USGS Graceville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Johnson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnson in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Johnson | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter was observed with a storm near the town of Johnson. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Johnson | - | Heavy rainfall resulted in the flooding of fields and ditches in and around the town of Johnson. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson | - | Seventy mph winds caused minor damage to the roof of a barn. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson | - | Eighty mph winds completely destroyed an open faced shed. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson | - | Seventy mph winds caused a partial loss of a roof. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Johnson | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Johnson | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Johnson | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Johnson | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Johnson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graceville | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Big Stone Colony | 9.9 miles | 8 | |
| Clinton | 10.7 miles | 7 | |
| Barry | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Artichoke | 14.0 miles | 6 | |
| Lagoona Beach | 17.4 miles | 7 | |
| Ortonville | 20.1 miles | 7 | |
| Cashtown | 20.4 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 Johnson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963482 | 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 645674. 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.