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Pemberton, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Medo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56078. It stands on Bull Run Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clair quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Pemberton within Blue Earth County

Population over time

2 figures

Pemberton fell from 247 to 229 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
2010247
2020229-18 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

1,806 words on this township

History of Blue Earth County and Biographies of Its Leading Citizens, published 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Medo Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Medo Township - 1,806 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pemberton between 2006 and 2012, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
9 November 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 November 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 November 2012Arson/incendiarism50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 October 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesPEMBERTON
2 October 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blue Earth County

Storms near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pemberton in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2010FloodPemberton$400,000Numerous roads were flooded between Minnesota 22, and Minnesota 83, plus County Road 14 near Highway 30. Monetary costs were based on FEMA, State, and Local assistance which includes the following categories; debris removal, emergency protective measures, road systems and bridges, water control facilities, utilities and parks.
June 2010HailPemberton$250,000Hail varied from golf ball to softball size, breaking vehicle windows. The large hail also caused small branches to come down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPemberton$2,000The leading edge of the squall line generated severe wind gusts and caused several large trees to be blown down north of Pemberton.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPemberton-There were several reports of downed large tree branches, some as large as 12 inch in diameter, that fell in conjunction with the large hail stones.
March 2010FloodPemberton-County Road 21 was closed due to flooding.
June 2004Funnel CloudPemberton-A funnel cloud was spotted by the Pemberton Fire Department just south of town.
June 2025Funnel CloudPemberton-no account filed
June 2023Funnel CloudPemberton-no account filed
May 2017HailPemberton-no account filed
June 2010HailPemberton-no account filed
June 2004HailPemberton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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
Saint Clair6.4 miles13
Beauford9.3 miles13
Mapleton10.7 miles7
Eagle Lake Regency11.2 miles14
Eagle Lake12.0 miles14
Madison Lake13.6 miles13
Pleasant Hill Manor13.6 miles13
University Park of Mankato14.1 miles14

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 PembertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229328The 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 649254. 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.