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Racine, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Racine City. It lies in ZIP code area 55967. The Survey maps it on the Stewartville quadrangle. 458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Racine within Mower County

Population over time

2 figures

Racine grew from 442 to 458 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
2010442
2020458+16 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Racine between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1998Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 December 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 October 1998Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mower County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Racine: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bly Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Burger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grand Meadow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Le Roy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cooper MineIronPast Producer
E Walterman Reserve MineIronProspect
Eisenman MineIronPast Producer
Mace MineIronPast Producer
Root MineIronPast Producer
Thorson MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Racine in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 funnel cloud, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010FloodRacine$850,000A few county roads were closed, including County Road 28 due to flooding. Also, city roads were closed in Austin, Grand Meadow, Adams and Le Roy, while evacuations of some apartments took place near Oakland Place in Austin. The rain began around 2 p.m. CST on the 22nd and continued through 10 p.m. CST on the 23rd. However, the majority of the rain fell by 7 a.m. CST on the 23rd.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Racine$210,000This was the second tornado of the night across Mower County. This EF1 tornado formed south of Racine, moved northeast just missing the town and then dissipated northeast of Racine. This tornado lifted the roof off a home and destroyed some farm buildings.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRacine$60,000A 32' x 172' dairy barn was blown down near Racine and another outbuilding was damaged.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRacine$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRacine$35,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRacine$30,000A metal pole shed was destroyed, trees were uprooted and large branches blown down in Racine.
August 2020LightningRacine$30,000A barn northeast of Dexter was destroyed by a fire started by a lightning strike.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRacine$15,000Farm outbuildings were damaged northeast of Grand Meadow.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRacine$5,000Around 30 large pine trees were blown down south of Stewartville.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRacine$3,000Several large trees were blown down southwest of Racine.
April 2004HailRacine$750no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRacine$500no account filed
April 2022HailRacine-Quarter sized hail fell north of Racine.
August 2008Funnel CloudRacine-A funnel cloud was reported, which lasted about five minutes.
August 2007HailRacine-Nickel size hail was estimated by fire department rescue squad.
August 2007HailRacine-Nickel to quarter sized hail was estimated by trained spotter. The hail fell for nearly 10 minutes.
July 2012HailRacine-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudRacine-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRacine-no account filed
August 2005Funnel CloudRacine-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRacine-no account filed
August 1999Funnel CloudRacine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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
Grand Meadow6.8 miles7
Dexter12.4 miles7
Elkton14.3 miles7
Renova15.2 miles9
Sargeant17.0 miles7
Taopi17.3 miles8
Le Roy18.4 miles7
Adams19.2 miles8

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 RacineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228255The 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 649786. 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.