BlockWanda, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Willow Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56294. The Survey maps it on the Wanda quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWanda fell from 84 to 72 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 | 84 | |
| 2020 | 72 | -12 (-14%) |
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
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wanda quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,936 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Willow Lake Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
"Willow Lake township is located in the south central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 110-36. It is bounded on the north by New Avon, on the east by Sundown, on the south by Charlestown, and on the west by Waterbury. Sleepy Eye creek crosses it on the north, flowing in an easterly direction. The surface is smooth prairie land. The Sanborn-Vesta branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses its southwest corner passing out through section 7. Its only village is Wanda. The trading centers are Wanda and Redwood Falls. There are five 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
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wanda in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2013 | Hail | Wanda | - | Very large hail occurred in a swath stretching from northwest to southeast, from several miles east of Wanda to the border of Brown and Redwood Counties north-northeast of Sanborn. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Wanda | - | Information relayed by the Redwood County dispatcher. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wanda | - | Several trees and branches felled in and around Wanda. As reported by Sanborn Sentinel newspaper. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Wanda | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud 2 miles north of Wanda or about 2 miles southeast of Wabasso. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Wanda | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Wanda | - | 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 Wanda | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2214319 | 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 653760. 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.