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.
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
Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholiclisted 1984- Rollingstone Village Halllisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresRollingstone 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 664 | |
| 2020 | 678 | +14 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1932 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Rollingstone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,095 words on this townshipHistory 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 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 June 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Winona District of the Upper Mississippi Complex | WINONA |
| 6 April 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biesanz Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Winona Aggregate Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kohner Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Kreidermacher Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mathy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Hail | Rollingstone | $150,000 | Public reported tennis ball hail caused holes in siding of a house near Minnesota City. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Rollingstone | $78,000 | Local officials reported 2 inch diameter hail near Rollingstone. |
| September 2019 | Lightning | Rollingstone | $10,000 | A house fire near Rollingstone was started by lightning. The house sustained minimal damage. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollingstone | $5,000 | Vehicles and a deck were damaged when large tree branches landed on them. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollingstone | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Rollingstone, temporarily blocking traffic on South Main Street. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Rollingstone. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | A volunteer observer reported ping pong ball sized hail in Rollingstone. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Rollingstone. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Rollingstone | - | 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 Rollingstone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1004041 | 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 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.







