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Long Prairie, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Long Prairie City. It lies in ZIP code area 56347. It stands on Venewitz Creek. The Survey maps it on the Long Prairie quadrangle. 3,661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

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Long Prairie within Todd County

On record in Long Prairie

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

Long Prairie grew from 3,458 to 3,661 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
20103,458
20203,661+203 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Long Prairie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 314 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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 burning28
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use31 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Prairie in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 funnel cloud. 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie$100,000Numerous trees were blown down in Long Prairie. The most concentrated area of damage occurred on the south and northeast part of town. One tree landed on a home and damaged it. Building material from roofs was also blown off in the downtown area. The material that blew off also damaged adjacent buildings.
June 2001Flash FloodLong Prairie$100,000Highway 27 flooded in Long Prairie. Road washed out 5 E Long Prairie.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie$50,000Semi trailer flipped over. Sheds, silos, and numerous trees down. Damage caused by rear flank downdraft that accompanies tornado. As determined by NWS damage survey.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie$5,000Several trees were blown down west of Long Prairie, Minnesota. In addition, there were reports of ponding of water on city streets, and standing water in some farm fields.
August 2024HailLong Prairie-Photo submitted via social media of golf ball size hail.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-A four inch diameter tree was blown down near Long Prairie.
June 2013Flash FloodLong Prairie-Very heavy rainfall began across Todd County after 1145 PM CST, Thursday, June 20th. Due to the extreme rainfall rates that continued through 100 AM CST, Friday, June 21st, 4th Street, south of Long Prairie, was inundated with flood waters. The heavy rainfall tapered off after 1 AM CST, June 21st, and flood waters slowly receded during the early morning hours. Parts of the Highway 71 southbound lane near Long Prairie had water covering the lane through 4 AM CST.
June 2013Heavy RainLong Prairie-Storm total rainfall amount of 4.20 inches was measured near Long Prairie.
March 2009FloodLong Prairie-Several reports of flooding along the Long Prairie River as the river began to crest, with one road partially closed due to flood waters.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-A few trees were downed.
August 2005HailLong Prairie-Dime sized hail fell in Section 27 of Little Elk Township.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Long Prairie-This tornado trekked through mostly heavily wooded areas, but did hit one home on the Todd/Morrison county line. Numerous trees were snapped and the house sustained shingle and soffit damage before the tornado crossed into Morrison County. This tornado was associated with the storm that produced downburst damage from 1455 to 1505 from 9 NE Browerville to 5 N Swanville.
June 2003Flash FloodLong Prairie-Several secondary and township roads washed out. Highway 71 between Browerville and Long Prairie was under water.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-Few trees toppled.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Long Prairie-No damage reported.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Long Prairie-Brief touchdown in open field. No damage reported.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Long Prairie-Brief touchdown in wooded area. Tornado was accompanied by swath of wind damage from rear flank downdraft.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-Estimated winds. Barn collapsed and several oak trees downed.
September 1998HailLong Prairie-Many home and vehicle windows broken on the north side of the city.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2015HailLong Prairie-no account filed
May 2012HailLong Prairie-no account filed
July 2007HailLong Prairie-no account filed
July 2006HailLong Prairie-no account filed
June 2005HailLong Prairie-no account filed
June 2002HailLong Prairie-no account filed
September 2002HailLong Prairie-no account filed
September 2002HailLong Prairie-no account filed
September 2002HailLong Prairie-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudLong Prairie-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudLong Prairie-no account filed
September 1998HailLong Prairie-no account filed
September 1998HailLong Prairie-no account filed
September 1998HailLong Prairie-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLong Prairie-no account filed
July 1996HailLong Prairie-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudLong Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Round Prairie5.0 miles8
Gutches Grove5.4 miles8
Browerville7.7 miles9
Little Sauk8.1 miles8
Clotho9.9 miles9
Pillsbury10.1 miles10
Clarissa11.6 miles9
Grey Eagle12.1 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 Long PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934289The 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 647139. 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.

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.