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North Mankato, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in North Mankato City. It lies in ZIP code area 56003. The Survey maps it on the Mankato West quadrangle. 14,275 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

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North Mankato within Nicollet County

On record in North Mankato

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

North Mankato grew from 13,394 to 14,275 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
201013,394
202014,275+881 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of North Mankato between 2009 and 2013, burning about 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
5 July 2013Fireworks5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nicollet County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of North Mankato: 8 producers, 3 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Blue Earth County Sand BedSilicaOccurrence
Blue Earth County Clay Deposit No 1ClayOccurrence
Blue Earth County Clay Deposit No 2ClayOccurrence
Guaranteed Gravel & Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanel Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mankato Stone CenterLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Vetter Main Quarry & MillLimestone, DimensionProducer
Lundin 8th Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lundin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mankago Aglime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Nicollet County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Mankato in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato$500,000Trees and power lines blown over. Estimated windspeed. Vehicle damage from wind-driven hail.
May 2012HailNorth Mankato$100,000Several spotters and local law enforcement officials reports a swath of very large hail from just west of North Mankato, to approximately 2 miles north of North Mankato. Most of the hail was quarter to half dollar size, but a few reports of tennis ball size hail was noted.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato$25,000Several trees were downed, including one that was uprooted and blocking a street, another that crashed on a house, and several others falling over power lines.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-County dispatch reported a power line down near the intersection of Webster Ave and Center St.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-A tree was down on a highway.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-Photo of large tree branches downed by strong thunderstorm winds in Spring Lake Park. Mankato Regional Airport reported a 50 mph wind gusts at 11:56 PM.
July 2020Flash FloodNorth Mankato-Both ramps to U.S. 169 in North Mankato were closed at Center Street due to flood waters.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-Several trees were blown down in North Mankato. The Mankato regional airport measured wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph approximately 10-15 minutes later, which is east of North Mankato.
April 2019Flash FloodNorth Mankato-Heavy rainfall triggered multiple rock and mudslides on Highway 169, between St. Peter and Mankato. The Minnesota Department of Transportation had to close parts of Highway 169 due to debris on the southbound lanes.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-An eight inch diameter tree was blown down in North Mankato.
June 2016Heavy RainNorth Mankato-A 4 hour rainfall report of 5.75 inches occurred in North Mankato.
June 2016Flash FloodNorth Mankato-Several sources indicated that torrential rainfall caused roads to flood across parts of North Mankato during the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14th. Mudslides were noted along the Minnesota River along Highway 169.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-A tree was blown down in North Mankato.
June 2014Heavy RainNorth Mankato-There was a 24 hour measured rainfall amount of 3.51 inches in North Mankato. All of the rain fell late on the 17th and during the early morning hours of the 18th.
June 2014Flash FloodNorth Mankato-The excessive rainfall caused a mudslide on Highway 169 in North Mankato on Judson Bottom Road, and there were also numerous flooded streets in the city limits of North Mankato.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-A large tree was blown down in North Mankato.
June 2010HailNorth Mankato-Several reports of quarter size hail occurred along Highway 169, north of Mankato, Minnesota, with drifts up to two feet reported along the road side.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a spotter just outside of town. Small trees were downed in the vicinity.
May 2005HailNorth Mankato-A trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-A tree was downed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-Six inch branches were downed. A wind gust of 57 MPH was measured elsewhere in town by a trained spotter.
September 2005Heavy RainNorth Mankato-A total of 1.35 inches of rain fell in 35 minutes. Minor street flooding was reported in poor drainage areas.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-Several trees down, including one across a road.
May 1998HailNorth Mankato-Occurred at television station.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindNorth Mankato-Shed blown over. Estimated windspeed.
June 1995HailNorth Mankato-,Dime-sized hail and 50 mph winds reported at KEYC-TV.
August 2025HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
April 2022HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
June 2020HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
August 2004HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
July 2000HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
May 1998HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
May 1998HailNorth Mankato-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodNorth Mankato-no account filed
July 1995HailNorth Mankato-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nicollet 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
Riverbend Estates0.5 miles13
Camelot Park1.0 miles13
Avalon1.3 miles13
Kerns4.8 miles13
North Star8.4 miles10
Oshawa9.5 miles10
Nicollet10.8 miles9
Saint Peter11.1 miles13

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 North MankatoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1992792The 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 648669. 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.