BlockLafayette, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lafayette City. It lies in ZIP code area 56054. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette quadrangle. 492 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLafayette fell from 504 to 492 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 | 504 | |
| 2020 | 492 | -12 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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
- 1964 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lafayette in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | $50,000 | A line of severe thunderstorms moved southward across Nicollet County causing damage to a machine shed, and roof damage to a hog barn. A local small wind turbine registered a wind gust of 80 mph. Hundreds of crop acres were damaged by hail throughout the central portion of the county. The largest hail reported was in the Lafayette area, and the city reported the worst tree damage. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | $2,000 | Severe straight line winds blew down power lines along County Road 1, west of Lafayette, Minnesota. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | - | A strong line of thunderstorms progressed across Nicollet County where numerous trees downed and flattened corn along a extending line from Lafayette, MN to North Mankato, MN. Local broadcast media provided a photo of a large tree branch down in Spring Lake Park which had been brought down by strong thunderstorm winds. The AWOS observation site located at Mankato Regional Airport recorded a wind gust of 50 mph at 11:56 PM. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | - | Several trees were knocked over and many large branches were broken in Lafayette. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | - | Large trees were downed. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | - | Outbuildings damaged, windows blown in at a house and in a van. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Lafayette | - | Metal taken off outbuilding. Numerous trees down in river valley east of Fort Ridgely State Park. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | - | Trees blown onto cars. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lafayette | - | Hail lasted for 10 minutes. Some crop damage. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Lafayette | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernadotte | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Klossner | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Saint George | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| New Sweden | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Poor Farm Landing | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| Courtland | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Nicollet Landing | 14.8 miles | 9 | |
| Norseland | 15.0 miles | 9 |
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 Lafayette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2225268 | 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 646312. 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.