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Lowry, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lowry City. It lies in ZIP code area 56349. The Survey maps it on the Lowry quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Lowry within Pope County

Population over time

2 figures

Lowry grew from 299 to 334 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
2010299
2020334+35 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lowry between 2000 and 2012, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 May 2009Debris and open burning1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2008Debris and open burning4.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesWINTERGREEN FIRE
19 November 2012Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeCR24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowry in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Lowry-A damage survey revealed about two dozen trees were uprooted or broken. It also destroyed a metal shed. The tornado was filmed on video and posted to social media.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLowry-Isolated tree damage around Lowry.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLowry-A machine shed was blown apart, other outbuildings were damaged, some siding was peeled away from a house, and two grain bins were damaged.
May 2013HailLowry-Quarter size hail and a wind gust of 56 mph occurred northwest of Glenwood, Minnesota.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLowry-A wind gust of 60 MPH was estimated by the fire department at the intersection of Highway 55 and 310th Avenue.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Lowry-Touchdown occurred over open field. A few large trees reported down across area.
July 2023HailLowry-no account filed
June 2019HailLowry-no account filed
June 2019HailLowry-no account filed
September 2019HailLowry-no account filed
June 2013HailLowry-no account filed
May 2012HailLowry-no account filed
July 2010HailLowry-no account filed
May 2003HailLowry-no account filed
June 2003HailLowry-no account filed
August 1998HailLowry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Farwell6.2 miles8
Starbuck6.3 miles9
Long Beach6.4 miles8
Glenwood7.8 miles8
Pine Hill Park11.2 miles9
Villard13.2 miles10
Cyrus13.2 miles8
Sedan16.9 miles8

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 LowryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230220The 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 647272. 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.