BlockNielsville, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Nielsville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56568. The Survey maps it on the Climax quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNielsville fell from 90 to 78 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 | 90 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -12 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Eldred quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Climax quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nielsville in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | $25,000 | A large farm garage was blown over, tipping over a large truck inside. Another shed was slightly damaged. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Nielsville | $1,000 | An intermittent two mile tornado track was found in the Nielsville area. Several trees were snapped or twisted off at the base in shelter belts. A swirl pattern was evident in a ripe wheat field for about one-half mile. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | - | Widespread tree damage with limbs around 3 inches in diameter blown down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | - | There were reports of power lines down and tree limbs up to 3 inches blown down. |
| July 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Nielsville | - | Nielsville FD reported multiple brief touchdowns near the pilling station lasting no more than 30 seconds and doing no reported damage other that stripping some leaves off crops. Spotters also reported a funnel with intermittent touchdowns near the Nielsville pilling station. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Nielsville | - | Fire Department in Nielsville reports golf ball sized hail. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Nielsville | - | This is a tornado that continued into Polk county from Norman Co. It moved into an open fields, which mitigated any damage and quickly diminished. Therefore, the rating of EF-U has been assigned with an estimated path width and length. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nielsville | - | The hail fell along highway 75. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nielsville | - | The hail damaged the siding on a house. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | - | Straightline wind damage occurred in town with shingles blown off homes, trees uprooted, and hail damage to siding. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Nielsville | - | Major crop damage was reported as the large hail stripped barley, wheat, and corn plants. The hail fell in a two mile long path. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | - | 5 inch diameter branches were broken off. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | - | 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown off. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nielsville | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Nielsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Nielsville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Nielsville | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Nielsville | - | 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.
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 Nielsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2184312 | 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 657597. 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.