Oronoco, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Oronoco City. It lies in ZIP code area 55960. It stands on South Branch Middle Fork Zumbro River. The Survey maps it on the Oronoco quadrangle. 1,802 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
On record in Oronoco
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
Frank's Ford Bridgelisted 1980
Oronoco Schoollisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresOronoco grew from 1,300 to 1,802 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 | 1,300 | |
| 2020 | 1,802 | +502 (+39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Oronoco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oronoco in 1992, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 1992 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
47 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oronoco in 47 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 33 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Oronoco | $7,000,000 | The approach on the north side of the County Road 18 bridge going through Oronoco washed out as the Middle Fork of the Zumbro River flooded. The Lake Shady Dam was also damaged. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Oronoco | $280,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported west of Oronoco. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $24,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oronoco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $14,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Oronoco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $7,000 | Two 1 foot diameter pine trees were blown down near Oronoco. A shed was also blown across a road and took out some power lines. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $5,000 | Many large trees were blown down in the city of Oronoco. Damage occurred to the soffit, facia, siding, and garage door of a home. Also, a camper tumbled and was moved from its original location. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Oronoco | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $250 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oronoco | - | The public reported quarter sized hail 2 miles west of Oronoco. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Oronoco | - | The public reported nickel sized hail in Oronoco, Minnesota. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | A storm chaser reported whole trees knocked over in Oronoco. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Public reported half dollar sized hail near Oronoco. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Public reported quarter sized hail near Oronoco. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Oronoco. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Hail slightly larger than dime size was reported along Highway 52. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oronoco Estates | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Cedar Beach | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Douglas | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Genoa | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Hallmark Terrace | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Zumbro Ridge Estates | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Post Town | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Ringe | 8.2 miles | 18 |
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 Oronoco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1004371 | 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 649000. 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.






