Storden, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Storden City. It lies in ZIP code area 56174. The Survey maps it on the Storden quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStorden grew from 219 to 225 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 | 219 | |
| 2020 | 225 | +6 (+3%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Storden quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Storden in 1994, burning about 95 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 95 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | LAKE AUGUSTA (RX/WF) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Storden: 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L C Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
35 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Storden in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a vehicle repair shop. The roof knocked down power lines when it fell, causing a power outage. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Storden | $50,000 | Lightning struck a garage, causing a fire which destroyed the garage, a pickup truck, lawn mower, tiller, and a restored bicycle. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, mostly downed branches. The winds also damaged screens and the paint on a house. Crop damage was suspected, but the anount of crop damage could not be determined, partly because hail falling at the same time also caused damage. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Storden | - | Pea to dime size hail fell north of Storden. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A brief gustnado developed along the storm outflow, but no damage was noted. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | Thunderstorm winds caused collapse of a cattle barn. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | Six wooden power poles were either leaning or down due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | Thunderstorm winds caused uplift of the south facing roof of a machine shed. The south facing door on a Morton building was also dented inward. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Storden | - | A video showed a weak tornado briefly touching down in an open field. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Storden | - | A tornado spun up around one mile west-southwest of Storden just southeast of the intersection of State Highway 30 and 370th Avenue. The tornado tracked northeast and crossed a slough where grasses exhibited a convergent pattern. The tornado then moved into the northwest edge of Storden where it destroyed a 500,000 bushel commercial grain bin and tossed the debris onto an adjacent office structure. The tornado lifted before reaching County Road 5. The estimated maximum wind speed was 95 mph and the average path width was 50 yards. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A gustnado along the leading edge of damaging wind gusts estimated at 75 mph caused damage to a garage, garden shed, and shingles on a home. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A grain bin was damaged by thunderstorm winds one-half mile south of Storden. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Storden | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Storden | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Storden | - | Heavy rain of up to 5 inches caused flooding of basements and some roads. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Storden | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Storden | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Storden | - | Large hail damaged crops. The amount of crop damage could not be determined, partly because there was also wind damage to crops. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Storden | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Storden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westbrook | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Jeffers | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Delft | 12.7 miles | 7 | |
| Windom | 15.9 miles | 7 | |
| Bingham Lake | 17.0 miles | 7 | |
| Mountain Lake | 21.7 miles | 7 |
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 Storden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1007051 | 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 652733. 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.





