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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.

Storden within Cottonwood County

Population over time

2 figures

Storden 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.

YearPeople Change
2010219
2020225+6 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1 since 1994

Regional 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 burning1

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
11 May 1994Debris and open burning95 acresWindom Wetland Management DistrictLAKE AUGUSTA (RX/WF)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottonwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
L C Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cottonwood County

Storms near this place

35 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Thunderstorm WindStorden$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a vehicle repair shop. The roof knocked down power lines when it fell, causing a power outage.
August 2000LightningStorden$50,000Lightning struck a garage, causing a fire which destroyed the garage, a pickup truck, lawn mower, tiller, and a restored bicycle.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindStorden$20,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindStorden$10,000Thunderstorm 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 1999Thunderstorm WindStorden$5,000no account filed
August 2023HailStorden-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 2022Thunderstorm WindStorden-A brief gustnado developed along the storm outflow, but no damage was noted.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindStorden-Thunderstorm winds caused collapse of a cattle barn.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindStorden-Six wooden power poles were either leaning or down due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindStorden-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 2022Tornado (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 2022Tornado (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 2022Thunderstorm WindStorden-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 2021Thunderstorm WindStorden-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindStorden-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindStorden-A grain bin was damaged by thunderstorm winds one-half mile south of Storden.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindStorden-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindStorden-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 2010Tornado (EF0)Storden-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Storden-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2005Flash FloodStorden-Heavy rain of up to 5 inches caused flooding of basements and some roads.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindStorden-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Storden-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2000HailStorden-Large hail damaged crops. The amount of crop damage could not be determined, partly because there was also wind damage to crops.
May 2013HailStorden-no account filed
June 2013HailStorden-no account filed
May 2012HailStorden-no account filed
June 2007HailStorden-no account filed
April 2005HailStorden-no account filed
June 2005HailStorden-no account filed
April 2004HailStorden-no account filed
May 2004HailStorden-no account filed
August 2003HailStorden-no account filed
June 2002HailStorden-no account filed
July 2002HailStorden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cottonwood 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
Westbrook6.2 miles10
Jeffers6.6 miles10
Delft12.7 miles7
Windom15.9 miles7
Bingham Lake17.0 miles7
Mountain Lake21.7 miles7

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 StordenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1007051The 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.