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Rushford, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rushford City. It lies in ZIP code area 55971. It stands on Rush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rushford West quadrangle. 1,860 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Rushford within Fillmore County

On record in Rushford

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Rushford grew from 1,731 to 1,860 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
20101,731
20201,860+129 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rushford between 1992 and 2015, burning about 151 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
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 May 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 1994Debris and open burning50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 1996Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 1995Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rushford: 3 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
Isberg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Le Fleur QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Peterson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rushford in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
August 2007Flash FloodRushford$38,000,000Heavy rain that was centered north of the county caused Rush Creek to flash flood on historic levels. In addition to Rush Creek, every other creek that leads into Rushford had tremendous accumulation that led to flood waters raging into town. The water backed up against the levees normally used to keep flood waters out from the nearby Root River and ended up flooding most of the town, including the entire downtown area.||In Rushford specifically, two thirds of the town was under water at some point. About 300 people had to be rescued. 490 of the 766 homes were flooded or had damage (79 were declared structurally unsound). 58 of the 70 businesses in town were damaged impacting nearly 500 of the 600 jobs in town. A total of 4 churches and 40 apartment buildings were also impacted.||Damage was widespread across the county, especially the northeast parts. Infrastructure was hit hard with numerous road closures and bridge damage. Numerous mud slides were reported. At least 704 homes applied for FEMA assistance.
August 2007FloodRushford$11,000,000Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water. The town of Rushford was inundated with flood waters from Rush Creek. In addition, the Root River at Rushford reached at an all-time record crest of 28.98 feet. As a result of flood waters, numerous homes, businesses and vehicles were damaged. In fact, two-thirds of the homes in Rushford were estimated to have been extensively damaged.
September 2016Flash FloodRushford$1,600,000Heavy rain caused Sugar Creek to flood with water going over County Highway 8 west of Fountain. Flooding on Duschee Creek caused State Highway 16 to be closed southwest of Lanesboro. State Highway 16 was also closed west of Whalan due to a mudslide. Downed trees blocked U.S. Highway 52 south of Chatfield and State Highway 43 near Rushford. Ox Cart Road suffered severe damage from a mudslide. Flood waters completely covered Riverside Campground and 70 campers had to be evacuated from the Highway 250 Campground. Numerous township roads were also damaged by the flooding.
August 1998Flash FloodRushford$25,000no account filed
June 1999HailRushford$20,000no account filed
August 1999HailRushford$10,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRushford$5,000An estimated 65 mph wind gust occurred in Rushford that blew down trees and power lines. Some pea sized hail also occurred.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRushford$5,000A shed was demolished from strong thunderstorm winds. Debris from the shed was blown into nearby fields. A garage was also pushed free of a nearby home.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRushford$3,000Several trees were blown down near Rushford.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRushford$3,000Several trees were blown down in and near Rushford.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRushford$2,000Several trees were blown down in Rushford.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRushford$2,000Large tree branches were broken southeast of Rushford.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRushford$2,000A power pole was bent by wind gusts along State Highway 43 in Rushford.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRushford$1,500Several 3 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down throughout the city of Rushford.
August 2019HailRushford-Quarter sized hail was reported near Rushford.
April 2014HailRushford-Quarter sized hail fell in Rushford.
July 2013HailRushford-Golf ball sized hail fell in Rushford.
May 2018HailRushford-no account filed
August 2006HailRushford-no account filed
May 2004HailRushford-no account filed
August 2004HailRushford-no account filed
July 1997FloodRushford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
South Rushford0.9 miles10
Rushford Village2.0 miles10
Peterson4.6 miles10
Bratsberg5.1 miles8
Arendahl8.4 miles10
Choice10.4 miles8
Whalan10.6 miles9
Highland10.8 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 RushfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228999The 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 650417. 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.