Mapleton, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mapleton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56065. The Survey maps it on the Mapleton quadrangle. 1,710 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
On record in Mapleton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Mapleton Public Librarylisted 2009
Lucas Troendle Houselisted 1980- Main Street Commercial Buildingslisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresMapleton fell from 1,756 to 1,710 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 | 1,756 | |
| 2020 | 1,710 | -46 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Mapleton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $10,000 | A storm survey concluded that severe straight-line winds moved through the town of Mapleton, and areas to the southeast that caused extensive tree damage, and power poles to be blown down. However, no structural damage to buildings or houses was found other than some minor damage to shingles at two homes. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $5,000 | A large tree limb broke off, and damaged a camper and truck. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a mature willow tree from a churchyard. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Measured by a MNDOT Road Weather Information System. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | A large tree blew down in Mapleton and damaged a transformer. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | A storm survey concluded that severe straight-line winds caused numerous large trees to be uprooted or blown down northwest of Mapleton. One home sustained minor damage to some shingles. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Large tree branches were blown down near County Road 30 on the east side of Mapleton, including downed power lines. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Mapleton | - | County Roads 7, and 191 near Mapleton were closed due to flooding. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Mapleton | - | An observer measured 2.68 inches of rainfall in six hours. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Mapleton | - | A trained spotter measured 6 inches of rainfall overnight. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | - | Mapleton police reported severe street flooding throughout the city of Mapleton, with a few stalled cars. Drainage ditches outside of town were outside their banks. 5.8 inches rain were reported from 1600 to 2036 CST. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Corn crop reported smashed into the ground in Mapleton. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Small branches also reported down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Trees were downed in a 6 block area of town. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Mapleton | - | Touched down in open field. No damage reported. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Damage induced by rear flank downdraft per NWS damage survey. A few dozen trees down. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Mapleton | - | About 6,000 acres of crops sustained severe hail damage in Blue Earth county. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauford | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sterling Center | 6.6 miles | 6 | |
| Good Thunder | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pemberton | 10.7 miles | 13 | |
| Amboy | 11.0 miles | 6 | |
| Vernon Center | 11.5 miles | 6 | |
| Saint Clair | 11.8 miles | 13 | |
| Rapidan | 12.9 miles | 12 |
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 Mapleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228437 | 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 647500. 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.
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.




