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Lyle, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lyle City. It lies in ZIP code area 55953. The Survey maps it on the Lyle quadrangle. 522 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Lyle within Mower County

Population over time

2 figures

Lyle fell from 551 to 522 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
2010551
2020522-29 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lyle in 2011, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources4894 485TH, IA

Every fire recorded in Mower County

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 Lyle: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Falk QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pope QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this place

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyle in 30 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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
June 2008Flash FloodLyle$500,000Hardest hit by flash flooding were locations in the southern part of the county, including the communities of Adams and Lyle.
June 2020HailLyle$125,000Golf ball sized hail fell west of Lyle.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLyle$55,000The roof was blown off an auto repair shop in Lyle destroying a car that was parked in front of the business. Trees were blown across town with at least one of them landing on top of a house.
June 2008FloodLyle$35,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLyle$30,000no account filed
December 2021Tornado (EF0)Lyle$15,000This tornado originally developed in Worth County, Iowa, moved into Freeborn County, Minnesota before crossing into Mower County west of Lyle. The tornado was only on the ground for about one minute in Mower County as it moved northeast and dissipated. One farm was damaged by the tornado, otherwise, damage was limited to trees.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLyle$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Lyle. Around 1,100 customers lost power.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLyle$10,000The siding and framing to an outbuilding was damaged north of Lyle.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLyle$6,000Trees and power lines were knocked down in Lyle and some penny sized hail also fell. One of the trees fell on a garage causing some minor damage.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLyle$3,000Trees, branches, and power lines were blown down.
June 2020LightningLyle$2,000A lightning strike started a transformer fire in Lyle that led to a power outage.
April 2001HailLyle$2,000no account filed
May 2006HailLyle$750no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLyle$500no account filed
June 2025HailLyle-The public reported quarter sized hail 3 miles east-northeast of Lyle.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLyle-The mesonet station 4 miles north of Lyle reported a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLyle-A mesonet station 4 miles north-northeast of Lyle measured a 65 mph wind gust.
May 2022HailLyle-Half dollar sized hail fell in Lyle.
May 2022HailLyle-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported northwest of Lyle.
June 2020HailLyle-Quarter sized hail fell west of Lyle.
June 2020Funnel CloudLyle-A funnel cloud was sighted northeast of Lyle.
September 2019Heavy RainLyle-Near Lyle, 2.5 inches of rain fell in less than two hours.
June 2014FloodLyle-Runoff from heavy rain caused water to go over County Road 105 south of Austin.
May 2022HailLyle-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLyle-no account filed
May 2006HailLyle-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLyle-no account filed
July 2002Funnel CloudLyle-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudLyle-no account filed
May 2000HailLyle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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
Varco7.0 miles9
Rose Creek9.0 miles9
Johnsburg9.3 miles9
Austin Acres10.6 miles9
Austin11.3 miles9
Nicolville12.2 miles9
Adams12.6 miles8
Mapleview12.8 miles9

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 LyleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2357973The 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 647318. 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.