Shelly, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Shelly City. It lies in ZIP code area 56581. The Survey maps it on the Shelly quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.
On record in Shelly
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 1 record
Zion Lutheran Churchlisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresShelly fell from 191 to 179 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 | 191 | |
| 2020 | 179 | -12 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1918 USGS Hendrum quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Shelly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
24 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelly in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 2 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 2019 | Flood | Shelly | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Flood | Shelly | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Flood | Shelly | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | $4,000 | A few 8 inch diameter trees were snapped near the ground in a cemetary. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Shelly | - | Shelly gage, on the Marsh River. Crested at 20.54 ft on April 14th at 22:00. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Shelly | - | Norman county Emergency Manager confirmed tornado touchdown east of Shelly, heading N-NW. This tornado lifted across the county line into Polk county. It occurred in open fields, which mitigated any damage. Therefore, the rating of EF-U has been assigned with an estimated path width and length. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | - | Roofs were damaged and trees were blown down. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | - | A few trees were toppled in shelterbelts along U. S. Highway 75. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | - | Several sections of corn, soybeans, and other crops were flattened by damaging winds across Shelly Township. Most shelterbelts had numerous tree branches broken off but an occasional tree was snapped near the ground. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Shelly | - | This tornado tracked for about 1.5 miles to around four miles east-northeast of Shelly. A couple of mature trees were snapped off and numerous smaller branches were spread around in a farmyard. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Shelly | - | Several quarter to half dollar sized hail fell. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | - | Several trees were blown down along the Red River. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | - | 4 inch diameter branches were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelly | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Shelly | - | A funnel cloud formed from a towering cumulus cloud and was visible from over 30 miles away. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Flood | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Shelly | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Shelly | - | 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 Shelly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227834 | 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 651947. 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.
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.





