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Miesville, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55009. The Survey maps it on the Miesville quadrangle. 138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Miesville within Dakota County

Population over time

2 figures

Miesville grew from 125 to 138 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
2010125
2020138+13 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Miesville between 1994 and 2000, burning about 48 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 April 1994Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miesville in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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 2012Flash FloodMiesville$1,000,000Dakota County's Miesville Ravine Park Reserve was closed due to flood waters. The 1,500-acre park in Douglas Township had around 3 miles of trails, 1,800 square feet of boardwalk and two parking lots washout or destroyed. The county estimated $1 million in park damages.
August 2014Flash FloodMiesville$5,000Rainfall amounts of 4 to locally 6 inches fell across portions of southeast Dakota County. The Miesville Ravine County Park was hit hard with the local Miesville Trail Road washed out due to heavy rainfall.
September 2024HailMiesville-Report from Mping.
August 2024Tornado (EF0)Miesville-A tornado developed at the southern edge of Bellwood Oaks Golf Course, uprooting several trees, then continued northeast. A narrow path of sporadic tree damage occurred along the track, with the last damage in Minnesota being on Blackbird Trail in Dakota County. The tornado tracked across a sliver of northern Goodhue County before crossing the Mississippi River into Wisconsin, dissipating about 5 miles southeast of Prescott in Pierce County.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Miesville-The tornado touched down in an open field and tipped over an irrigation system. It then tore tin off several outbuildings and broke several down trees. The tornado was seen on several videos. Maximum winds were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2020Heavy RainMiesville-There was a 12 hour rainfall report northeast of Miesville of 6.37 inches.
June 2020Heavy RainMiesville-There was a 12 hour rainfall report near Miesville of 5.86 inches.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMiesville-A NWS storm survey concluded that downburst winds caused damage to several large trees in the Miesville Ravine Park Reserve.
July 2017Flash FloodMiesville-Local law enforcement officials had to close portions of Highway 316 between 200th Street and Ravenna Trail due to washed out roads and flooding.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMiesville-Numerous trees downed nearly blocking Highway 50.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMiesville-Power lines were downed in the 240th, Lilleyheight, and Highway 61 areas.
August 1997HailMiesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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
Etter5.6 miles15
New Trier6.4 miles11
Vermillion9.6 miles12
Hampton10.0 miles11
Hastings10.1 miles12
Empire11.4 miles13
Randolph12.1 miles11
Nininger12.6 miles18

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 MiesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2212763The 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 647830. 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.

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.