BlockPlato, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Helen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55370. It lies near Kennison Lakebed. The Survey maps it on the Plato quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPlato grew from 320 to 329 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 | 320 | |
| 2020 | 329 | +9 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Plato quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plato in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plato | $25,000 | An old barn was damaged in Plato, plus several large tree limbs and one large tree that were blown down. The large tree landed on a house and damaged it. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plato | $3,000 | A roof was damaged in Plato. Power lines were also blown down on 2nd St Northeast, and 1st Ave Northeast in Plato. |
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Plato | - | The storm total was 2.8 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plato | - | Tractor trailer blown over. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plato | - | Power lines blown down. Roof blown off baseball pavillion. Estimated windspeed. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Plato | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plato | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Court | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Sunrise Court | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Glencoe | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lester Prairie | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Koniska | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| South Silver Lake | 11.4 miles | 10 | |
| Sumter | 12.1 miles | 10 | |
| Silver Lake | 12.1 miles | 10 |
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 Plato | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1924441 | 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 649540. 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.