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Lewiston, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lewiston City. It lies in ZIP code area 55952. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. 1,533 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Lewiston within Winona County

Population over time

2 figures

Lewiston fell from 1,620 to 1,533 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
20101,620
20201,533-87 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Lewiston between 1992 and 2009, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1998Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lewiston: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Enterprise Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Silo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Woodward QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wyattville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this place

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 5 deaths and 2 injuries. 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 2007Flash FloodLewiston5 killed, $300,000Five fatalities were reported from people driving into flood waters. Two fatalities occurred near Witoka when a couple's vehicle fell into a chasm along County Road 17 that had opened when flood waters washed out the road. Near Stockton, two fatalities occurred when a couple's vehicle was swept away by flood waters from Garvin Brook. Near the Enterprise rest area on Interstate 90, a man was killed when his vehicle was washed away by flood waters along Rush Creek.
July 1999Tornado (F2)Lewiston2 hurt, $2,000,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodLewiston$6,000,000Flash flooding and mudslides were common from the Elba area through Whitewater State Park and into the Lewiston area. Numerous mudslides occurred with many roads closed. Debris slid down hills and blocked drainage areas making flooding worse in many areas. A car was stuck in high water on County Highway 29 at some point.||Highway 74 in Whitewater State Park completely washed out. About 500 campers were evacuated that evening, but about a dozen campers were stranded at a primitive campsite overnight. They were rescued the following morning. The state park lost 3 bridges and there was extreme damage to campgrounds, rest rooms, a group dining hall, and the septic and water systems totaling at least one million dollars. The flood system installed at the park did activate that evening.||Many area creeks and trout streams were heavily damaged.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLewiston$250,000no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodLewiston$50,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLewiston$30,000At the high school in Lewiston, metal bleachers were ripped off the main seating area, smaller metal bleachers were blown across the track and part of the track was ripped up.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLewiston$15,000Emergency management reported a tree on a powerline in Lewiston with tree branches down elsewhere.
September 2000HailLewiston$15,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLewiston$10,000Power outages occurred in Lewiston from downed power lines.
September 2000HailLewiston$10,000no account filed
September 2000HailLewiston$7,500no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLewiston$5,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLewiston$3,000The public reported tree branches down with siding and shingle damage to a house near Lewiston.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLewiston$3,000Large trees were blown down in Lewiston.
June 2001HailLewiston$2,500no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLewiston$2,000Trees were blown down in Lewiston.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLewiston$2,000Trees were blown down in Lewiston.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLewiston$2,000Trees were blown down and one inch hail fell in Lewiston. One of the large trees blown down fell across U.S. Highway 14 with both lanes blocked for about 15 minutes.
August 2007Flash FloodLewiston$1,500Water was over some roads in Winona County.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLewiston$1,000Large tree branches were blown down in Lewiston.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLewiston$1,000Large tree branches were blown down in Lewiston.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLewiston$500Winds were estimated at 60 miles an hour when the thunderstorms ripped through Lewiston.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLewiston$200A few trees were blown in Lewiston.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Emergency management reported several trees down in the city of Lewiston.
April 2022HailLewiston-Quarter sized hail fell in Lewiston.
June 2020HailLewiston-Quarter sized hail fell in Lewiston.
June 2020Heavy RainLewiston-In Lewiston, 4.62 inches of rain fell.
July 2018Funnel CloudLewiston-A funnel cloud was sighted over Lewiston.
May 2018HailLewiston-Quarter sized hail fell in Lewiston.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLewiston-Wind gusts of 65 to 74 mph occurred south of Lewiston.
May 2008HailLewiston-Nickel size hail was reported by the emergency manager at Enterprise rest area near mile post 244 on Interstate 90.
May 2021HailLewiston-no account filed
June 2020HailLewiston-no account filed
March 2017HailLewiston-no account filed
April 2009HailLewiston-no account filed
August 2009Funnel CloudLewiston-no account filed
May 2007HailLewiston-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLewiston-no account filed
August 2004HailLewiston-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLewiston-no account filed
May 2001HailLewiston-no account filed
August 2000HailLewiston-no account filed
July 1997FloodLewiston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winona 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
Bethany3.5 miles14
Utica4.6 miles10
Fremont5.1 miles10
Wyattville5.2 miles10
Stockton6.1 miles14
Altura7.1 miles14
Rollingstone8.3 miles14
Clyde8.5 miles10

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 LewistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924700The 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 646624. 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.