BlockOrmsby, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 56162. The Survey maps it on the Trimont quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Trimont quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ormsby in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Hail | Ormsby | - | Large hail fell just south of the Martin, Watonwan County line. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Ormsby | - | Bands of thunderstorms began to develop across the county by mid evening, with several thunderstorms training over the same areas. By midnight, nearly five inches of rain fell in the northeast corner around Truman. The town of Fairmont started receiving reports of flooding in town. Total rainfall amounts by morning ranged from over 6 inches in the northeast corner, to around 3 to 4 inches in the far south. By morning, the town of Truman had flooded roadways, and four to five feet of water in basements. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Ormsby | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Ormsby | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Ormsby | - | 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.
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 Ormsby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2121334 | 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 648995. 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.
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.