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Wabasha, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wabasha City. It lies in ZIP code area 55981. It lies near Hershey Island. The Survey maps it on the Wabasha North quadrangle. 2,559 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Wabasha within Wabasha County

On record in Wabasha

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 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wabasha grew from 2,521 to 2,559 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
20102,521
20202,559+38 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wabasha between 1994 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 August 1995Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2021008
9 April 1994Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 1994Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabasha County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wabasha: 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Alma High School Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Deer Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Deer Creek Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Freiheit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lake Pepin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Marky Bluff Rd Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Spring Creek Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spring Creek Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Wabasha Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this place

39 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabasha in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWabasha$40,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWabasha$15,000A wind gust to 74 mph was measured in the city of Wabasha which blew trees down and caused power outages.
March 1998HailWabasha$15,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWabasha$12,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWabasha$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailWabasha$3,500no account filed
August 2000HailWabasha$3,500no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWabasha$3,000Public reported multiple fallen large trees on roadways and loss of electricity near Wabasha.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWabasha$2,500no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWabasha$2,000Trees were blown down just north of the city of Wabasha.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWabasha$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWabasha$2,000no account filed
September 2000HailWabasha$1,500no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWabasha$1,500no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWabasha$1,000A tree was blown down onto U.S. Highway 60 near mile marker 214.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWabasha$500no account filed
June 2001HailWabasha$400no account filed
April 2026HailWabasha-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail 1 mile southwest of Wabasha.
April 2026HailWabasha-The public reported ping pong ball sized hail in Wabasha.
April 2026HailWabasha-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail 2 miles south-southeast of Wabasha.
July 2021Heavy RainWabasha-In Wabasha, two inches of rain fell.
September 2018Heavy RainWabasha-Near Wabasha, 4.92 inches of rain fell.
August 2016Heavy RainWabasha-In the city of Wabasha, 6.6 inches of rain fell.
July 2014FloodWabasha-Flooding along the Mississippi River, combined with runoff from heavy rain, caused flooding to occur on the west side of Wabasha. This flooding prompted the Minnesota Department of Transportation to close State Highway 60 in late June. The road was opened in the first week July.
June 2014FloodWabasha-Flooding along the Mississippi River, combined with runoff from heavy rain, caused flooding to occur on the west side of Wabasha. This flooding prompted the Minnesota Department of Transportation to close State Highway 60. The road remained closed into July.
September 2010Heavy RainWabasha-Storm total rainfall was 7.29 inches, including 5.16 inches on September 23rd and a brand new daily September record.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWabasha-Trees were knocked down in town.
April 2022HailWabasha-no account filed
May 2013HailWabasha-no account filed
April 2009HailWabasha-no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindWabasha-no account filed
May 2004HailWabasha-no account filed
May 2002HailWabasha-no account filed
May 2002HailWabasha-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWabasha-no account filed
March 1998Tornado (F0)Wabasha-no account filed
June 1997HailWabasha-no account filed
June 1997HailWabasha-no account filed
May 1996HailWabasha-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha 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
Reads Landing2.8 miles16
Midland Junction4.6 miles15
Dumfries5.3 miles15
Kellogg5.6 miles20
Maple Springs7.1 miles15
Conception9.1 miles15
Theilman10.7 miles15
West Newton10.8 miles20

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 WabashaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q612217The 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 653695. 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.