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Vernon Center, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Vernon Center City. It lies in ZIP code area 56090. The Survey maps it on the Amboy quadrangle. 328 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Vernon Center within Blue Earth County

Population over time

2 figures

Vernon Center fell from 332 to 328 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
2010332
2020328-4 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vernon Center in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindVernon Center$50,000Numerous trees were blown down along with a roof blown off a commercial building near Vernon Center.
August 1994Tornado (F2)Vernon Center-$50,000This tornado touched down near County Road 10 in Lyra Township, 3 miles east of Vernon Center. As it tracked to the southeast, it damaged 4 barns, 2 mobile homes and 2 homes. It then entered Sterling Township, caused significant crop damage by flattening a path through a corn field. It damaged 3 more barns and 9 more homes before lifting off the ground about 1 mile east of Sterling Center. Despite the amount of damage, there were no injuries or fatalities. Overall, 12-14 buildings received structural damage and 7 barns were damaged.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindVernon Center-Several trees were uprooted or blown down at the intersection of County Roads 10 & 20, in southern Blue Earth County.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindVernon Center-A large 15 inch diameter tree was snapped off at the base near Vernon Center. This damage was associated with a secondary severe storm that developed in southern Blue Earth County and moved rapidly north-northeast across the county.
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Vernon Center-The tornado touched down in an open field and was caught on video.
July 2016HailVernon Center-Quarter size hail continued as the storm entered Blue Earth County.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVernon Center-A ten inch diameter tree was blown down northwest of Vernon Center.
June 2014Flash FloodVernon Center-Significant street flooding, along with several streams and creeks that were out of their banks occurred from Vernon Center to Good Thunder, St. Clair and Mapleton.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindVernon Center-Large trees were blown down on the south side of Vernon Center.
May 2022Funnel CloudVernon Center-no account filed
April 2022HailVernon Center-no account filed
April 2022HailVernon Center-no account filed
April 2022HailVernon Center-no account filed
August 2019HailVernon Center-no account filed
June 2007HailVernon Center-no account filed
May 2007HailVernon Center-no account filed
May 2003HailVernon Center-no account filed
September 2000HailVernon Center-no account filed
June 1998HailVernon Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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
Amboy5.1 miles6
Garden City5.9 miles12
Sterling Center6.2 miles6
Good Thunder6.2 miles12
Willow Creek7.0 miles6
Rambush Estates II10.2 miles12
Lake Crystal10.3 miles12
Rapidan10.6 miles12

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 Vernon CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q534280The 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 653640. 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.