Porter, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Porter City. It lies in ZIP code area 56280. The Survey maps it on the Porter quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Porter within Yellow Medicine County

Population over time

2 figures

Porter fell from 183 to 166 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	183
2020	166	-17 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Porter quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Porter in 2012, burning under an 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Yellow Medicine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Porter: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Antony Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Yellow Medicine County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Porter in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Porter	$15,000	Several eight inch diameter trees were blown down from Porter, to approximately 4 miles east of Porter, Minnesota. The City of Porter, had power outages due to power lines blown down.
May 2022	Hail	Porter	-	There was a social media picture of golf ball size hail.
June 2006	Hail	Porter	-	Ground nearly covered.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Porter	-	A tornado crossed into Yellow Medicine County from Lincoln County just west of Porter. It dissipated shortly after with little if any damage reported. The time was estimated.
June 2004	Hail	Porter	-	no account filed
May 1999	Funnel Cloud	Porter	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellow Medicine 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Canby	7.7 miles	8
Saint Leo	8.2 miles	8
Burr	12.8 miles	8
Spring Creek	17.7 miles	9
Normania	18.9 miles	9
Clarkfield	21.7 miles	9
Hazel Run	25.2 miles	9
Hanley Falls	29.1 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 Porter	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1900352	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 649673. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.