Louisburg, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake Shore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56256. The Survey maps it on the Correll quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Louisburg within Lac qui Parle County

On record in Louisburg

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 1 record

Louisburg Schoollisted 1986

Population over time

2 figures

Louisburg fell from 47 to 31 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	47
2020	31	-16 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Correll quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Louisburg between 2004 and 2007, burning about 7,524 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
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 May 2007	Other causes	43 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	UNNAMED
13 May 2007	Natural	150 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	SECTION 32
14 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	7,330 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	LOUISBURGRADE

Every fire recorded in Lac qui Parle County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisburg in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Louisburg	$100,000	Local law enforcement officials, spotters and chasers observed a brief tornado touchdown on the southern edge of Louisburg. It picked up a grain bin at the Louisburg elevator and threw it 100 yards. Some trees were also uprooted near the same area.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisburg	$3,500	Power lines were blown down near Louisburg, Minnesota.
July 2025	Funnel Cloud	Louisburg	-	A brief tornado was reported by somebody with a fire department, but there were no photos provided nor any reports of damage. Satellite imagery did not show any path or damage, and nobody else spotted a tornado. With the uncertainty, this was most likely a funnel cloud.
May 2023	Tornado (EFU)	Louisburg	-	A weak tornado develop north of Madison in Lac Qui Parle county. There were several images of this tornado on social media, but no reports of damage.
May 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Louisburg	-	Damage was convergent, with peak winds estimated near 105 mph. A house received significant damage, with much of its roof removed. Numerous trees were broken.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisburg	-	The local emergency manager received damage reports in areas east of Highway 75, and north of Highway 40 as a severe storm moved through. The following are some of the reports received: one hog barn destroyed, 13 power poles broken, 3 grain bins damaged, one hoop barn damaged, one machine shed damaged, one 5th wheel livestock trailer destroyed, numerous windows broken, and house siding damaged.
June 2015	Hail	Louisburg	-	A swath of large hail, the largest being ping pong ball size, occurred in an area between the Lac Qui Parle, and Big Stone County line, southeast toward the town of Cerro Gordo. The combination of hail and wind caused considerable damage to the row crops in this area as well as substantial building/property damage. It was also indicated that an estimated 10,600 acres of soybeans were likely destroyed and another 10,600 acres were damaged.
July 2012	Hail	Louisburg	-	The combination of large hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph, caused significant crop damage across the northern fringe of Lac Qui Parle County.
August 2009	Hail	Louisburg	-	The local law enforcement officials reported dime to quarter size hail which covered the ground. The next morning the local emergency manager reported that the hail remained in the city of Louisburg, Minnesota with drifts still around two feet. Some residences of Lac Qui Parle County reported that the hail lasted for one half hour with drifts of two to three feet. Minor damage occurred to crops and local gardens.
June 2007	Hail	Louisburg	-	Leaves stripped off of several trees.
June 2007	Hail	Louisburg	-	Dime to nickel size hail covered the ground.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisburg	-	Trees, baseball dug outs blown over near High School. Tree felled over CR66.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisburg	-	Two grain bins were damaged. A shed and a tree were downed.
June 2004	Hail	Louisburg	-	Field crops were destroyed by wind driven hail.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisburg	-	A few trees down, empty rail car moved.
July 1997	Lightning	Louisburg	-	Fire caused by lightning strike to tree spread to small shed and tractor.
June 2024	Hail	Louisburg	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Louisburg	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Louisburg	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Louisburg	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Louisburg	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Louisburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lac qui Parle 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bellingham	6.5 miles	7
Cerro Gordo	10.8 miles	6
Madison	10.9 miles	6
Rosen	12.2 miles	7
Haydenville	13.1 miles	7
Nassau	15.8 miles	8
Marietta	17.0 miles	8
Dawson	17.2 miles	8

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 Louisburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q583421	The 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 647223. 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.