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Lansing, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lansing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55912. It stands on Roberts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Austin East quadrangle. 132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Lansing within Mower County

Population over time

2 figures

Lansing fell from 181 to 132 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
2010181
2020132-49 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lansing in 2018, burning under an acre 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
Fireworks1

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
4 May 2018Fireworksunder an acreWindom Wetland Management DistrictLOST LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mower County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lansing: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Dave Spinler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hyland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wachlin PlitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lansing in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLansing$2,500A fence was blown onto an automobile and a large tree was blown into power lines.
June 2025FloodLansing-Heavy rainfall throughout the month of June resulted in the Cedar River at Lansing rising into flood stage during the evening hours on June 26th and then reaching a crest in minor flood stage of 18.74 feet later that night. The river stage then fell below flood stage during the early morning of June 27th.
June 2025FloodLansing-Heavy rain throughout the first half of June resulted in the Cedar River at Lansing reaching flood stage during the overnight on June 16th before reaching a crest of 18.61 feet during the early morning hours on June 17th in minor flood stage. The river then fell below flood stage just after noon on June 17th.
August 2025FloodLansing-Heavy rain during the middle of August allowed the Cedar River at Lansing to rise into flood stage during the afternoon on August 17th. The site crested at 18.33 ft in minor flood stage during the late afternoon on August 17th before falling below flood stage during the early evening that same day.
June 2024FloodLansing-Significant rainfall later into June pushed the Cedar River at Lansing into flood stage of 18.0 ft early June 22nd. The river stage crested the same day during the afternoon at 19.84 ft in minor flood stage.
March 2019FloodLansing-Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Cedar River out of its banks near Lansing. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 18.65 feet on March 15th.
September 2019FloodLansing-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Cedar River out of its banks near Lansing. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 18.17 feet on the 12th.
September 2019Heavy RainLansing-The mesonet equipment at Lansing measured 3.77 inches of rain.
September 2016FloodLansing-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Cedar River out of its banks near Lansing. The river crested over two feet above the flood stage at 20.29 feet.
June 2014FloodLansing-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Cedar River out of its banks in Lansing. The river crested around a quarter of foot above the flood stage.
March 2011FloodLansing-The combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Cedar River at Lansing out of its banks. The river exceeded the flood stage for a short period on the 23rd. The river crested just over the flood stage at 18.02 feet.
September 2010FloodLansing-Locally heavy rains pushed the Cedar River near Lansing out of its banks from September 23rd to the 25th. The river exceeded the flood stage by three feet, cresting at 21.0 feet.
May 2018HailLansing-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLansing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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
Andyville1.8 miles9
Ramsey2.5 miles9
Mayville3.5 miles7
Mapleview3.9 miles9
Brownsdale5.4 miles9
Austin5.4 miles9
Austin Acres6.6 miles9
Nicolville6.9 miles9

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 LansingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q13417349The 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 646489. 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.