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Norcross, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Norcross City. It lies in ZIP code area 56274. The Survey maps it on the Herman quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Norcross within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Norcross fell from 70 to 52 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
201070
202052-18 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Norcross in 2003, burning about 102 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

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
30 April 2003Debris and open burning102 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norcross in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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
August 2025Tornado (EFU)Norcross-Relayed from emergency manager. Brief landspout type tornado northwest of Norcross. No damage reported.
August 2025Tornado (EFU)Norcross-Relayed from emergency manager. Brief landspout type tornado west of Norcross. No damage reported.
June 2012Funnel CloudNorcross-A persistent funnel was seen approaching the Norcross area from eastern Traverse County for several minutes before it crossed into western Grant County.
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Norcross-A weak tornado touched down just west of highway 9 and tracked intermittently eastward for about three miles. The tornado broke down several large tree branches and a few tree limbs in shelterbelts along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
May 2011HailNorcross-After the storm passed there were drifts of hail several inches deep in one yard.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNorcross-Trees were blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNorcross-A grain bin was torn from its foundation and was blown across a road. Another grain bin was torn from its moorings. This bin rolled east and broke power lines next to the railroad tracks. It then rolled over the tracks, over highway 9, and into the west edge of Norcross. A train had to be stopped, as the wires laid across the tracks. Many trees were also blown down.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Norcross-A brief touchdown was reported.
July 2020HailNorcross-no account filed
May 2008Funnel CloudNorcross-no account filed
October 2006HailNorcross-no account filed
June 2005HailNorcross-no account filed
August 2004HailNorcross-no account filed
May 2002HailNorcross-no account filed
May 2002HailNorcross-no account filed
June 1997HailNorcross-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Herman5.1 miles10
Hereford (historical)10.5 miles9
Wendell12.6 miles10
Elbow Lake14.5 miles10
Barrett16.5 miles10
Thorsborg (historical)17.3 miles10
Hoffman21.7 miles10
Erdahl21.8 miles10

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 NorcrossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1844520The 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 648581. 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.