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Lanesboro, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lanesboro City. It lies in ZIP code area 55949. It stands on Duschee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lanesboro quadrangle. 724 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Lanesboro within Fillmore County

On record in Lanesboro

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lanesboro fell from 754 to 724 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
2010754
2020724-30 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lanesboro between 1994 and 2020, burning about 66 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 1994Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Lanesboro: 12 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hungerholt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
La Crescent Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whalen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Anderson Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Baiers Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grebin Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Judy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lanesboro Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rissman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanesboro in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008FloodLanesboro$750,000The Root River went into flooding due to the heavy rains during the weekend of June 7-8. The South Branch of the Root River at Preston crested at 941.67 feet on June 9, which was the third highest crest on record. Flood stage is 937.0 feet. At Lanesboro, the South Branch of the Root River reached 14.17 feet with a flood stage there of 12 feet.
May 1998HailLanesboro$28,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$15,000The roof was blown off a building near Lanesboro.
September 2016Flash FloodLanesboro$10,000Flooding along the Root River washed out roads just outside of Lanesboro. State Highway 16 was closed southwest of Lanesboro because of a mudslide.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$6,000Several trees were blown down or damaged in Lanesboro, including at the golf course. One of the downed trees fell across a road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$2,000Several trees were blown down in Lanesboro.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$2,000Trees were blown down in Lanesboro.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$1,200no account filed
June 2014Flash FloodLanesboro$1,000A mudslide occurred north of Lanesboro across State Highway 250.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$500A large tree was blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLanesboro$500no account filed
June 2020Heavy RainLanesboro-A mesonet reporting station measured 4.54 inches of rain in Lanesboro.
September 2016Heavy RainLanesboro-The automated mesonet station in Lanesboro measured 5.55 inches of rain.
June 2014Heavy RainLanesboro-A mesonet automated weather observing system measured 4.13 inches of rain.
June 2013FloodLanesboro-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the South Branch of the Root River out of its banks in Lanesboro. The river crested almost two feet over flood stage at 13.76 feet.
September 2010Heavy RainLanesboro-The storm total rainfall was 4.51 inches.
August 2006HailLanesboro-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLanesboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Whalan2.8 miles9
Isinours4.2 miles7
Highland6.3 miles8
Preston6.6 miles7
Bucksnort7.8 miles9
Arendahl8.0 miles10
Hutton8.1 miles8
Fountain8.6 miles8

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 LanesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230234The 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 646474. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.