BlockPerley, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56574. The Survey maps it on the Perley quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 876 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPerley grew from 92 to 113 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 | 92 | |
| 2020 | 113 | +21 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Perley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
22 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perley in 22 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Perley | $2,000 | Rainfall amounts of 4 to 5 inches produced widespread flooding of fields and farm access roads across southern portions of Mary Township. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Measured gust at NDAWN mesonet station 216419 east of Perley MN. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Measured gust at NDAWN mesonet station 216419 6 miles east of Perley, MN. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Peak wind measured at an NDAWN station. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Trees were blown down in a shelterbelt. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Perley | - | Dime to quarter sized hail was reported. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Perley | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail fell along with very strong winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Numerous four to eight inch diameter tree branches and limbs were broken down in shelterbelts across southeast Lee Township. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Numerous large trees were blown down. A row of 10 wooden power poles were also snapped off. Roofing and gutters were torn off two homes. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | An NDAWN mesonet wind sensor measured a 85 mph wind gust. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | A 59 mph wind gust was measured at an NDAWN site. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perley | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Perley | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Perley | - | 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 Perley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228356 | 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 649302. 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.