West Concord, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55985. The Survey maps it on the West Concord quadrangle. 861 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
On record in West Concord
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
Perry Nelson Houselisted 1982- West Concord High Schoollisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresWest Concord grew from 782 to 861 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 | 782 | |
| 2020 | 861 | +79 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS West Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
35 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Concord in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $110,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | West Concord | $50,000 | Heavy rainfall caused flooding over County Roads 24, 5, and 1. Cars stalled in flood waters and local fire department personnel had to evacuate people from nearby homes and farm, in addition to the rescue of stranded motorists. |
| July 2009 | Hail | West Concord | $15,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | West Concord | $10,000 | An EF1 tornado formed in far northern Dodge County north of West Concord and then moved northeast into Goodhue County. Two farms along the path of the tornado sustained minor damage. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down producing power outages north of a line from between West Concord and Dodge Center east to the Dodge/Olmsted county line. |
| October 2007 | Flood | West Concord | $10,000 | Heavy rain produced flooding along the Middle Fork of the Zumbro River causing it to exceed 100 yards wide at some points. A bridge along County Road 7 caused the river to dam which also led to more flooding. Water was 2 to 3 feet deep running through fields and many roads were impassable. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $5,000 | A shed was blown down and a tree uprooted west of West Concord. |
| June 2008 | Flood | West Concord | $2,500 | Sections of Highway 24 were closed between 120th Avenue and 150th Avenue due to high water from the Middle Fork of the Zumbro River. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $2,000 | Trees were blown down north of West Concord. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $2,000 | Trees were blown down west of West Concord. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $2,000 | Trees were blown down near West Concord. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | A 60 mph wind gust was measured north of West Concord. |
| May 2017 | Hail | West Concord | - | Quarter sized hail was reported northwest of West Concord. |
| August 2016 | Funnel Cloud | West Concord | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near West Concord. |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | West Concord | - | A funnel cloud was sighted northwest of West Concord. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | West Concord | - | A tornado briefly touched down west of West Concord. The tornado was not on the ground long enough to produce any damage. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | West Concord | - | In about two and a half hours, 3.5 inches of rain fell in West Concord. |
| June 2011 | Hail | West Concord | - | The hail fell for about 10 minutes. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | The Dodge County emergency manager reported a measured wind gust of 60 mph in West Concord. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | West Concord | - | Rainfall totaled 8.25 inches. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | A silo top was blown off from estimated wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| May 2021 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | West Concord | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | West Concord | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concord | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Eden | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Berne | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Wasioja | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Valley View Park | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Dodge Center | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Heritage Estates | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Claremont | 9.2 miles | 11 |
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 West Concord | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q641210 | 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 653947. 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.






