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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.

Oronoco within Olmsted County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Oronoco 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,300
20201,802+502 (+39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1992

Regional 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
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
31 May 1992Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this place

47 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Flash FloodOronoco$7,000,000The 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 2022HailOronoco$280,000Golf ball sized hail was reported west of Oronoco.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOronoco$24,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOronoco$20,000no account filed
August 2000HailOronoco$15,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindOronoco$15,000no account filed
June 1998HailOronoco$15,000no account filed
August 2000HailOronoco$14,000no account filed
May 1998HailOronoco$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOronoco$10,000no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindOronoco$7,000Two 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 2010Thunderstorm WindOronoco$5,000Many 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 2005HailOronoco$5,000no account filed
August 2000HailOronoco$5,000no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco$3,000no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco$2,000no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco$1,500no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco$1,500no account filed
August 2000HailOronoco$1,500no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOronoco$500no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOronoco$250no account filed
April 2026HailOronoco-The public reported quarter sized hail 2 miles west of Oronoco.
March 2025HailOronoco-The public reported nickel sized hail in Oronoco, Minnesota.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOronoco-A storm chaser reported whole trees knocked over in Oronoco.
July 2023HailOronoco-Public reported half dollar sized hail near Oronoco.
July 2023HailOronoco-Public reported quarter sized hail near Oronoco.
July 2022HailOronoco-Quarter sized hail was reported in Oronoco.
July 2009HailOronoco-Hail slightly larger than dime size was reported along Highway 52.
July 2022HailOronoco-no account filed
March 2017HailOronoco-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudOronoco-no account filed
May 2008HailOronoco-no account filed
July 2008HailOronoco-no account filed
July 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
August 2006HailOronoco-no account filed
June 2005HailOronoco-no account filed
June 2001HailOronoco-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOronoco-no account filed
June 1998HailOronoco-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindOronoco-no account filed
June 1996HailOronoco-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindOronoco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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
Oronoco Estates3.1 miles12
Cedar Beach3.7 miles16
Douglas4.5 miles12
Genoa5.5 miles12
Hallmark Terrace7.2 miles18
Zumbro Ridge Estates7.4 miles18
Post Town7.6 miles11
Ringe8.2 miles18

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 OronocoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004371The 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.