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.
Population over time
2 figuresVernon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 332 | |
| 2020 | 328 | -4 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Amboy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vernon Center | $50,000 | Numerous trees were blown down along with a roof blown off a commercial building near Vernon Center. |
| August 1994 | Tornado (F2) | Vernon Center- | $50,000 | This 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vernon Center | - | Several trees were uprooted or blown down at the intersection of County Roads 10 & 20, in southern Blue Earth County. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vernon 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 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Vernon Center | - | The tornado touched down in an open field and was caught on video. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | Quarter size hail continued as the storm entered Blue Earth County. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vernon Center | - | A ten inch diameter tree was blown down northwest of Vernon Center. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Vernon 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vernon Center | - | Large trees were blown down on the south side of Vernon Center. |
| May 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Vernon Center | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amboy | 5.1 miles | 6 | |
| Garden City | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Sterling Center | 6.2 miles | 6 | |
| Good Thunder | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Willow Creek | 7.0 miles | 6 | |
| Rambush Estates II | 10.2 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Crystal | 10.3 miles | 12 | |
| Rapidan | 10.6 miles | 12 |
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 Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q534280 | 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 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.



