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Lonsdale, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lonsdale City. It lies in ZIP code area 55046. The Survey maps it on the Lonsdale quadrangle. 4,686 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Lonsdale within Rice County

On record in Lonsdale

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lonsdale grew from 3,674 to 4,686 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
20103,674
20204,686+1,012 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

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 Lonsdale: 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
Camp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Concrete Materials Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rice County

Storms near this place

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lonsdale in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 20 hail, 4 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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
March 1998Tornado (F2)Lonsdale$20,000,000Four homes and 6 businesses severely damaged. Street department building damaged. 20 farms damaged or destroyed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLonsdale$30,000Roof partially off house, and its garage also collapsed. Several sheds down, and numerous trees were toppled.
June 2020FloodLonsdale-Local officials closed Union Lake Trail between Garfield and Gonvick due to flood waters.
May 2017HailLonsdale-The city of Lonsdale had hail, up to nickel size, fall for 5 minutes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-A 7 inch diameter tree limb was blown down in Lonsdale.
June 2016HailLonsdale-There were numerous reports of large hail from north to east of Lonsdale, with the largest measured at 1.25 inches.
August 2016Flash FloodLonsdale-A few streets in Lonsdale were closed due to high water. Flood waters also affected local businesses and homes with basement flooding.
June 2012Flash FloodLonsdale-Several roads were closed in northeast Rice County due to water over the road. Specifically, County Road 3, west of Webster, and County Road 42 and Kellogg Ave, south of Highway 19 was closed, with the shoulders washed out.
July 2008HailLonsdale-Reported at intersection of County Rd. 4 and County Rd. 1.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-A shed was damaged. Trees were downed along Arizona Street NW.
April 2004HailLonsdale-Quarter to tennis ball sized hail fell.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Lonsdale-Tornado touched down briefly in open field. No damage reported.
August 1999Tornado (F0)Lonsdale-A few trees down. Continuation of the Le Sueur County tornado.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-Shed blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
August 2021HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2012HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2012HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2012HailLonsdale-no account filed
July 2011HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2007HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2007HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2007HailLonsdale-no account filed
June 2005HailLonsdale-no account filed
August 2002HailLonsdale-no account filed
March 1998Tornado (F1)Lonsdale-no account filed
May 1998HailLonsdale-no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodLonsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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
Trondjem1.9 miles10
Veseli2.9 miles11
Wheatland3.1 miles10
Webster5.3 miles11
Little Chicago5.6 miles10
Millersburg6.3 miles10
Shieldsville7.9 miles12
Hazelwood8.1 miles11

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 LonsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2333599The 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 647154. 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.

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.