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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.

Mapleton within Blue Earth County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mapleton 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,756
20201,710-46 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMapleton$10,000A 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 2019Thunderstorm WindMapleton$5,000A large tree limb broke off, and damaged a camper and truck.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMapleton$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a mature willow tree from a churchyard.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Measured by a MNDOT Road Weather Information System.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMapleton-A large tree blew down in Mapleton and damaged a transformer.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMapleton-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 2013Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Large tree branches were blown down near County Road 30 on the east side of Mapleton, including downed power lines.
March 2010FloodMapleton-County Roads 7, and 191 near Mapleton were closed due to flooding.
July 2010Heavy RainMapleton-An observer measured 2.68 inches of rainfall in six hours.
September 2010Heavy RainMapleton-A trained spotter measured 6 inches of rainfall overnight.
May 2007Flash FloodMapleton-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 2007HailMapleton-Corn crop reported smashed into the ground in Mapleton.
July 2007HailMapleton-Small branches also reported down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Trees were downed in a 6 block area of town.
June 2005HailMapleton-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Mapleton-Touched down in open field. No damage reported.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Damage induced by rear flank downdraft per NWS damage survey. A few dozen trees down.
June 1997HailMapleton-About 6,000 acres of crops sustained severe hail damage in Blue Earth county.
June 2022HailMapleton-no account filed
August 2014HailMapleton-no account filed
September 2010HailMapleton-no account filed
October 2005HailMapleton-no account filed
June 2004HailMapleton-no account filed
April 2002HailMapleton-no account filed
May 2001HailMapleton-no account filed
June 2001HailMapleton-no account filed
May 2000HailMapleton-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMapleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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
Beauford5.4 miles13
Sterling Center6.6 miles6
Good Thunder7.8 miles12
Pemberton10.7 miles13
Amboy11.0 miles6
Vernon Center11.5 miles6
Saint Clair11.8 miles13
Rapidan12.9 miles12

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 MapletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228437The 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.