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Odessa, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Odessa City. It lies in ZIP code area 56276. It stands on Stony Run. The Survey maps it on the Odessa quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Odessa within Big Stone County

On record in Odessa

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Odessa fell from 135 to 103 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
2010135
2020103-32 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Odessa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,667 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1

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 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeLEE
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeNE REFUGE
30 September 1993Debris and open burning19 acresBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeDIMBERG-WF
2 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeBALER
15 September 2006Natural2.0 acresBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeKOCH
15 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeLUND WILDFIRE
8 July 2002Smokingunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeTOUR RT
25 June 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeMUSKRAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Odessa: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Agate QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hillman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dakota Granite QuarryGraniteProducer
View QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Big Stone County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odessa in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 15 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOdessa-The time of the peak wind gust was estimated based on radar.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Several branches were downed, and some shingles were blown off a roof by estimated 65 mph winds.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Odessa-A tornado was photographed north of Odessa.
August 2019HailOdessa-Quarter size hail shredded some bean fields.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Eighty mph winds dented several grain bins, took off a section of a machine shed roof, tipped over a grain auger, along with breaking some windows.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Several power poles were snapped about four feet off the ground by very strong winds of over 100 mph.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Sixty mph winds brought down several tree branches.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Sixty mph winds were estimated near Odessa.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOdessa-Sixty mph winds downed several large tree branches.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Odessa-A tornado touched down east of Odessa and traveled through an open field causing no damage. Path length and width were estimated.
May 1994HailOdessa-Strong thunderstorm winds and large damaged cars and buildings in and around the Ortonville and Odessa areas.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
August 2021HailOdessa-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
June 2015HailOdessa-no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
May 2014HailOdessa-no account filed
May 2014HailOdessa-no account filed
August 2013HailOdessa-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
August 2010HailOdessa-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed
May 2005HailOdessa-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOdessa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Stone 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
Cashtown6.4 miles7
Ortonville6.9 miles7
Correll9.2 miles6
Lagoona Beach11.1 miles7
Artichoke13.2 miles6
Clinton14.9 miles7
Big Stone Colony20.1 miles8
Foster21.3 miles8

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 OdessaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228947The 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 648897. 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.