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Mabel, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mabel City. It lies in ZIP code area 55954. The Survey maps it on the Mabel quadrangle. 716 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Mabel within Fillmore County

Population over time

2 figures

Mabel fell from 780 to 716 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
2010780
2020716-64 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mabel between 2003 and 2009, burning about 24 acres 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
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 May 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mabel: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bentley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eggert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Forde QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hanson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newberg MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newberg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Otterness QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Underpass QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mabel in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Flash FloodMabel$750,000Flash flooding impacted a large part of the county, especially the southern half. High water was reported over Highways 30 and 44. Many area creeks rose very rapidly and caused infrastructure damage.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMabel$50,000no account filed
June 2000LightningMabel$18,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMabel$17,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMabel$15,000The roof was blown off a building in Mabel.
June 2020Flash FloodMabel$10,000Heavy rains from Tropical Depression Cristobal caused mudslides to occur near Whalan. One slide impacted State Highway 16.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMabel$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Mabel.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMabel$2,500no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMabel-A 63 mph wind gust was measured with a private weather station north of Mabel.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMabel-An 84 mph wind gust was measured in Mabel with a private weather station.
June 2018Heavy RainMabel-The COOP observer in Mabel measured 5.22 inches of rain.
September 2016Flash FloodMabel-Steam Engine Park in Mabel was flooded by water from Riceford Creek.
September 2016Heavy RainMabel-The COOP observer in Mabel measured 4.61 inches of rain.
June 2002Funnel CloudMabel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Newburg4.0 miles8
Prosper5.4 miles8
Tawney6.7 miles8
Lenora7.0 miles8
Canton8.5 miles8
Amherst9.0 miles8
Choice9.7 miles8
Henrytown9.9 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 MabelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1949127The 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 647346. 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.