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.
Population over time
2 figuresNorcross 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 70 | |
| 2020 | 52 | -18 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1911 USGS Herman quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Herman quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 102 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Norcross | - | Relayed from emergency manager. Brief landspout type tornado northwest of Norcross. No damage reported. |
| August 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Norcross | - | Relayed from emergency manager. Brief landspout type tornado west of Norcross. No damage reported. |
| June 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Norcross | - | A persistent funnel was seen approaching the Norcross area from eastern Traverse County for several minutes before it crossed into western Grant County. |
| June 2012 | Tornado (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 2011 | Hail | Norcross | - | After the storm passed there were drifts of hail several inches deep in one yard. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norcross | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norcross | - | 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 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Norcross | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Norcross | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Norcross | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herman | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Hereford (historical) | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wendell | 12.6 miles | 10 | |
| Elbow Lake | 14.5 miles | 10 | |
| Barrett | 16.5 miles | 10 | |
| Thorsborg (historical) | 17.3 miles | 10 | |
| Hoffman | 21.7 miles | 10 | |
| Erdahl | 21.8 miles | 10 |
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 Norcross | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1844520 | 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 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.




