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Mayer, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mayer City. It lies in ZIP code area 55360. The Survey maps it on the Mayer quadrangle. 2,453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Mayer within Carver County

Population over time

2 figures

Mayer grew from 1,749 to 2,453 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
20101,749
20202,453+704 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayer in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMayer$5,000Roof damage in Mayer was noted on a social media post.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMayer-Report of a 12-inch diameter tree snapped at the base. A MNDOT RWIS station located one mile to the NE of the storm report site recorded a 60-mph wind gust.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Mayer-Touchdown was likely in a field northwest of Goose Lake. The most substantial tree damage occurred along the northwest shore of Lake Waconia. The tornado then tracked across County Rd 92 south of Crown College before ending somewhere between Parley Lake Rd and the western edge of Carver Park Reserve. The maximum estimated wind speed was 95 mph.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMayer-A three to four foot diameter tree was uprooted with numerous large branches snapped.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMayer-Several large branches were downed, some of which were partially blocking a road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMayer-Wind gust was reported by Mesonet station, MN023 (MAYER 1NE).
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMayer-A large tree fell on a power line near Mayer, and started a fire.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMayer-A six-inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMayer-Two to three inch tree limbs severed. |.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMayer-Few trees down.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Mayer-Six to ten acres of corn flattened.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMayer-2 foot diameter trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2019HailMayer-no account filed
July 2019HailMayer-no account filed
May 2012HailMayer-no account filed
May 2008HailMayer-no account filed
July 2007HailMayer-no account filed
June 1999HailMayer-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMayer-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMayer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carver 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
Maple3.8 miles12
New Germany4.4 miles11
Hollywood4.7 miles11
Hydes Lake5.0 miles12
Watertown5.8 miles12
Waconia5.8 miles12
Hazelton6.0 miles11
Coney Island7.0 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 MayerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229369The 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 647629. 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.