Villard, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Villard City. It lies in ZIP code area 56385. The Survey maps it on the Villard quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.
On record in Villard
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Northern Pacific Depotlisted 1983
Daniel Pennie Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresVillard fell from 254 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 | 254 | |
| 2020 | 225 | -29 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Villard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lake Minnewaska quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Villard between 1996 and 2015, burning about 290 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | HUDSON |
| 11 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 46 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 110 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villard in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Villard | $10,000 | A few boats were flipped, a shed was damaged and shingles were blown off a roof near Amelia Lake. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | Boat lifts and canopies overturned on Lake Reno. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees, including one on a trailer near the town of Villard. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | There were numerous large trees blown down along Highway 29, and along Lake Reno. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Villard | - | The tornado touched down for brief times on several occasions before it dissipated. It was recorded on video by multiple storm chasers. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | Several large trees were blown down south of Villard. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | Large trees were uprooted in Villard. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | A large tree fell down near Villard. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villard | - | A few large tree branches were blown down near Villard. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Villard | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Villard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Villard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Villard | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Villard | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westport | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Hill Park | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Glenwood | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Long Beach | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Grove Lake | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Sedan | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lowry | 13.2 miles | 8 | |
| Terrace | 14.4 miles | 9 |
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 Villard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2098676 | 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 653658. 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.
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.




