BlockVesta, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vesta City. It lies in ZIP code area 56292. The Survey maps it on the Echo quadrangle. 276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVesta fell from 319 to 276 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 | 319 | |
| 2020 | 276 | -43 (-13%) |
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
- 1965 USGS Echo quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,407 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Vesta City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Vesta township is located in the northwestern part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 112-38. It is bounded on the north by Yellow Medicine county and half a mile of Entire, due to the mistake in the survey; on the east by Sheridan, on the south by Granite Rock, and on the west by Underwood. The Redwood river flows eastwardly through the central part of it. The surface is generally rolling. The Sanborn- Vesta branch of the Chicago and Northwestern enters it on the east side and passes in a northwesterly direction to the center of the township, stopping at Vesta. The only village is Vesta. The trading centers are Vesta, Echo, Seaforth and Redwood Falls. There are six school houses. The predominating nationality is Bohemian and German.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Beginning with September 4, 1866, Vesta was a part of Yellow Medicine township, and after Yellow Medicine county was organized March 6, 1871, was considered a part of Redwood Falls township. Vesta was created with its present boundaries, May 11, 1880.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
The History of the Minnesota Valley published in 1882 says : "The first claim was taken by William Smith in the fall of 1868 on section 14. He was followed by Mathias and Hubbard Burgess, Hiram Eldredge, George and Albert Dunning, in May 1869. The town was set apart for organization May 11, 1880, and the first election was ordered held at the house of Sarah Mcintosh, May 29 following. The name was given by Commissioner Hotchkiss after the goddess Vesta. The first school was taught by Mrs. Mary Reed in 1872, at the house of Hubbard Burgess ; schools are still conducted in private houses. Religious services have been conducted by the Methodist society for several years at private houses. The first marriage was that of S. Holson and Eliza Burgess in the winter of 1873. The first death was an infant daughter of William Smith, that died in November, 1870, and was buried on the farm.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Vesta City - it names this place 10 more 10 times.
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vesta in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2002 | Lightning | Vesta | 1 hurt | Lightning struck a machine shop in which a man was working. Some electricity traveled through a hoist and hydraulic hose that the man was holding, entered his body through one arm and exited out the other. Although struck, the injury was not serious. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Vesta | $500,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down in Redwood County, approximately 6 miles west of Vesta, and moved into the far southeast corner of Yellow Medicine County, near 100th Avenue and 600th Street. Numerous trees were uprooted along with a few homes damaged along the path across northwestern Redwood County. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Vesta | $255,000 | Numerous counties roads were flooded from snow melt and associated runoff along several tributaries of the Minnesota River, and the Redwood River in Redwood County. Monetary costs were based on FEMA, State, and Local assistance which includes the following categories; emergency protective measures, and road systems and bridges. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Vesta | $250,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down just east of the Lyon, Redwood County border, and moved northeast to approximately 8 miles north of Milroy. Path length was approximately 2.6 miles, with a maximum width of 300 yards. Numerous trees were uprooted with a grain bin heavily damaged. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesta | $10,000 | Several power poles were toppled in the city of Vesta. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Vesta | - | Hail the size of quarters lasted the entire ten minutes. |
| September 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Vesta | - | Multiple reports. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesta | - | Large branches and signs were downed. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Vesta | - | Hail broke several windows. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesta | - | Large tree branches down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesta | - | Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Vesta | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Vesta | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Vesta | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Vesta | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Vesta | - | 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 Vesta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2246576 | 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 653645. 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.