BlockPrinsburg, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Holland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56281. The Survey maps it on the Prinsburg quadrangle. 520 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPrinsburg grew from 497 to 520 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 | 497 | |
| 2020 | 520 | +23 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Prinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prinsburg in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | $10,000 | Several large tree limbs, and power lines were blown down, including a piece of sheet metal on power lines. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph damaged a metal outbuilding near Prinsburg. |
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Prinsburg | - | Cocorahs station MN-KD-23 Renville 7.1 N. 72 hour total of 5.11 inches. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | Trees were down. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | Trained spotter measured quarter size hail southeast of Prinsburg. |
| August 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Prinsburg | - | Storm chaser video showed a tornado that touched down in a field in Chippewa County, where it hit a tree and took down large branches. It continued moving across a bean field, then moved across a road and tracked into Kandiyohi County, where it entered a corn field and eventually dissipated. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | One tree was blown down in Prinsburg. The tree blew down on a power line and knocked out power in the town of Prinsburg. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | Trees and power lines toppled. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | Roof ripped off of a building. Two trees down. Power lines down. |
| November 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Prinsburg | - | Brief touchdown at two farms. The tornado destroyed a small storage shed, tipped another shed on its side, and ripped off a portion of the roof of a third shed at the Marcus family farm, as reported by the Raymond-Prinsburg news. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | Major damage incurred to houses and other property. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | Scattered trees and sheds down, a few barns down. The damage originated from a downburst which was 5 miles long and 3 miles wide. It covered a portion of northern Renville and a portion of southern Kandiyohi county. The swath of of wind damage in Kandiyohi county was 3 miles wide and 2 miles long. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prinsburg | - | Several farm buildings were blown down due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Prinsburg | - | 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 Prinsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1005649 | 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 649739. 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.