BlockRose Creek, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55970. The Survey maps it on the Rose Creek quadrangle. 397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRose Creek grew from 394 to 397 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 | 394 | |
| 2020 | 397 | +3 (+1%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Rose Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
79 words on this townshipThe History of Mower County, Minnesota : Illustrated, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Windom Township covers location, advantages and area, early settlement, first events, organization of the township, religious, rose creek village.
Read the chapter on Windom Township - 79 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rose Creek: 2 producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Osmundson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose Creek in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Rose Creek | $55,000 | A small tornado touched down damaging a machine shed and a home as well as uprooting some trees. Debris was scattered over a stretch of one mile. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Rose Creek | $10,000 | Emergency management reported Rose Creek flooded onto Highway 56 west of the town of Rose Creek. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rose Creek | - | The public reported tree damage and downed power poles 1 mile west of Rose Creek. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rose Creek | - | Trees were reported down near 610th Avenue and 205th Street in Austin. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Rose Creek | - | Half dollar sized hail fell near Rose Creek. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Rose Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Rose Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Rose Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Rose Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Rose Creek | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolville | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Adams | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Varco | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Johnsburg | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Elkton | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Austin | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Lyle | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Austin Acres | 9.6 miles | 9 |
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 Rose Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228365 | 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 650259. 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.
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.