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.
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
Odessa Jaillisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresOdessa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 135 | |
| 2020 | 103 | -32 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Ortonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Odessa quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | LEE |
| 30 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | NE REFUGE |
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | DIMBERG-WF |
| 2 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | BALER |
| 15 September 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | KOCH |
| 15 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | LUND WILDFIRE |
| 8 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | TOUR RT |
| 25 June 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | MUSKRAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agate Quarry | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hillman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dakota Granite Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| View Quarry | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | The time of the peak wind gust was estimated based on radar. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | Several branches were downed, and some shingles were blown off a roof by estimated 65 mph winds. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Odessa | - | A tornado was photographed north of Odessa. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Odessa | - | Quarter size hail shredded some bean fields. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | Several power poles were snapped about four feet off the ground by very strong winds of over 100 mph. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | Sixty mph winds brought down several tree branches. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated near Odessa. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | Sixty mph winds downed several large tree branches. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (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 1994 | Hail | Odessa | - | Strong thunderstorm winds and large damaged cars and buildings in and around the Ortonville and Odessa areas. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Odessa | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Odessa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashtown | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Ortonville | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Correll | 9.2 miles | 6 | |
| Lagoona Beach | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Artichoke | 13.2 miles | 6 | |
| Clinton | 14.9 miles | 7 | |
| Big Stone Colony | 20.1 miles | 8 | |
| Foster | 21.3 miles | 8 |
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 Odessa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228947 | 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 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.




