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.
Population over time
2 figuresMabel 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 780 | |
| 2020 | 716 | -64 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mabel quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2003Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bentley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Eggert Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Forde Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hanson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Newberg Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Newberg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Otterness Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Underpass Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Mabel | $750,000 | Flash 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Lightning | Mabel | $18,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | $17,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | $15,000 | The roof was blown off a building in Mabel. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Mabel | $10,000 | Heavy rains from Tropical Depression Cristobal caused mudslides to occur near Whalan. One slide impacted State Highway 16. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in Mabel. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | $2,500 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | - | A 63 mph wind gust was measured with a private weather station north of Mabel. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabel | - | An 84 mph wind gust was measured in Mabel with a private weather station. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Mabel | - | The COOP observer in Mabel measured 5.22 inches of rain. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Mabel | - | Steam Engine Park in Mabel was flooded by water from Riceford Creek. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Mabel | - | The COOP observer in Mabel measured 4.61 inches of rain. |
| June 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Mabel | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Mabel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1949127 | 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 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.






