Magnolia, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Magnolia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56158. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia quadrangle. 196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,526 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMagnolia fell from 222 to 196 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 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 196 | -26 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Magnolia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Magnolia: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| K Foster Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| W & V Foster | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnolia in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | $728,000 | Numerous power poles down along I-90 and either side at Magnolia exit. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Magnolia | - | Hail size varied between quarter and half dollar size. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 59 mph were measured at the Minnesota Road Weather Information System site near Magnolia. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 61 mph were measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN147 1 mile southwest of Magnolia. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was measured by a Minnesota Road Weather Information System site 1 mile south of Magnolia. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph was measured by a Minnesota Road Weather Information System site 1 mile west-southwest of Magnolia. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | A hand-held anemometer measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph 1 mile west-southwest of Magnolia. |
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 74 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN147 near Magnolia. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down large branches. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Magnolia | - | Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 to 3 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Magnolia | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of fields and several roads. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Magnolia | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Magnolia | - | 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 Magnolia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228109 | 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 647376. 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.
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.



