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Minnesota City, Minnesota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minnesota City City. It lies in ZIP code area 55959. It stands on Rollingstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winona West quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Minnesota City within Winona County

Population over time

2 figures

Minnesota City fell from 204 to 202 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
2010204
2020202-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Minnesota City between 1992 and 2010, burning about 69 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning10
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 July 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 1997Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWinona District of the Upper Mississippi ComplexGRAFF
1 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWinona District of the Upper Mississippi ComplexWINONA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Minnesota City: 11 occurrences, 8 producers, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Biesanz Winona QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Patzner QuarryStoneUnknown
Biesanz Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rivers Breeze Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Waumandee Creek Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waumandee Creek Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Winona Aggregate Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bronk Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Donald Rumpel Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Feeder Stream Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minnesota City in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMinnesota City$18,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMinnesota City$7,000no account filed
June 2024Flash FloodMinnesota City$5,000The public relayed numerous reports of mudslides along Highway 61 in Winona County.
July 2024FloodMinnesota City-Significant rainfall throughout June pushed the Mississippi River at Minnesota City into flood stage in June and continued into July. The river stage crested during the morning on July 1st in minor flood stage at 661.94 ft.
July 2024HailMinnesota City-The public reported half dollar sized hail near Minnesota City.
July 2024HailMinnesota City-The public reported two inch diameter hail just southwest of Minnesota City.
June 2024FloodMinnesota City-Significant rainfall throughout June pushed the Mississippi River at Minnesota City into flood stage of 660.0 ft on June 25th. The river stage continued to rise through the end of the month while remaining in minor flood stage.
April 2023FloodMinnesota City-Significant upstream runoff from the combination of rainfall and rapidly melting snow pushed the Mississippi River at Minnesota City into flood stage on April 16th. A crest of 664.30 ft above sea level occurred on April 25th, 4.3 ft over flood stage.
May 2023FloodMinnesota City-The combination of heavy rainfall and rapidly melting snow resulted in the fifth highest crest on record at the Minnesota City Dam towards the end of April. Subsequent dry conditions allowed the Mississippi River to slowly recede and drop below minor flood stage at the Minnesota City Dam on May 3rd.
June 2021HailMinnesota City-Quarter sized hail fell in Minnesota City.
September 2010Heavy RainMinnesota City-Storm total rainfall was 6.37 inches.
May 2002HailMinnesota City-no account filed
June 2001HailMinnesota City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winona 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
Rollingstone3.6 miles14
Goodview3.6 miles18
Stockton4.7 miles14
Whitman5.1 miles14
Winona6.6 miles18
Morningside Terrace8.1 miles18
Sugarloaf8.1 miles18
Oakridge9.2 miles14

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 Minnesota CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228014The 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 647934. 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.

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.