BlockWabasso, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vail Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56293. The Survey maps it on the Wabasso quadrangle. 739 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.
On record in Wabasso
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 1 record
- Commercial Hotellisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresWabasso grew from 696 to 739 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 | 696 | |
| 2020 | 739 | +43 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wabasso quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
403 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Vail Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Vail township is located in the central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-37. It is bounded on the north by Sheridan, on the east by New Avon, on the south by Waterbury and on the west by Granite Rock. A small branch of the Redwood river passes across the northwest corner of it. The Vesta-Sanborn branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses it from north to south and the Evan-Marshall branch of the same road passes across it from east to west. The surface is rolling, but marshy in the central part. The only village is Wabasso. The trading centers are Wabasso and Redwood Falls. There are four school houses. The predominating nationality is German.
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.
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabasso in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | $50,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted between Wabasso and Wanda, Minnesota. A large grain bin was also blown down near Wabasso, Minnesota. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | $25,000 | A pole barn and several trees were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Wabasso | - | This slow moving tornado was widely photographed and caught on video by multiple citizens and storm spotters. It hit several farmsteads, breaking or uprooting dozens of trees. One open air building on a feedlot was destroyed. Several machine sheds had doors blown out, and tin was peeled off the portion of several roofs. |
| April 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Wabasso | - | Storm spotters sighted numerous funnel clouds across Redwood County for 15 to 20 minutes. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | - | Numerous large branches down. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabasso | - | 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 Wabasso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227017 | 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 653699. 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.