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Rollingstone, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rollingstone City. It lies in ZIP code area 55969. It stands on Speltz Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rollingstone quadrangle. 678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Rollingstone within Winona County

On record in Rollingstone

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Rollingstone grew from 664 to 678 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
2010664
2020678+14 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

2,095 words on this township

History of Winona County, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rollingstone Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rollingstone Township - 2,095 words.

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Rollingstone between 1992 and 2009, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 July 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 1997Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWinona District of the Upper Mississippi ComplexWINONA
6 April 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rollingstone: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Biesanz Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winona Aggregate Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kohner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kreidermacher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mathy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollingstone in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2023HailRollingstone$150,000Public reported tennis ball hail caused holes in siding of a house near Minnesota City.
July 2024HailRollingstone$78,000Local officials reported 2 inch diameter hail near Rollingstone.
September 2019LightningRollingstone$10,000A house fire near Rollingstone was started by lightning. The house sustained minimal damage.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRollingstone$5,000Vehicles and a deck were damaged when large tree branches landed on them.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRollingstone$2,000Trees were blown down in Rollingstone, temporarily blocking traffic on South Main Street.
April 2026HailRollingstone-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Rollingstone.
October 2023HailRollingstone-A volunteer observer reported ping pong ball sized hail in Rollingstone.
April 2022HailRollingstone-Quarter sized hail was reported in Rollingstone.
May 1999HailRollingstone-no account filed
June 1997HailRollingstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winona 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
Minnesota City3.6 miles18
Whitman3.9 miles14
Stockton5.5 miles14
Oakridge5.7 miles14
Altura6.8 miles14
Goodview6.9 miles18
Bethany7.1 miles14
Minneiska7.3 miles14

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 RollingstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004041The 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 650233. 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.