BlockWinthrop, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Winthrop City. It lies in ZIP code area 55396. It lies near Allen Lakebed. The Survey maps it on the Winthrop quadrangle. 1,332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWinthrop fell from 1,399 to 1,332 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 | 1,399 | |
| 2020 | 1,332 | -67 (-5%) |
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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Winthrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Winthrop quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
39 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winthrop in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | 2 hurt | Severe thunderstorms dropped golf ball-size hail at Gaylord and strong thunderstorm winds tore a canopy from a local Inn and debris was blown onto several homes. Two persons were injured and damage to three homes was reported. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Winthrop | $250,000 | Very large hail fell around the city of Winthrop, including the local golf course that sustained a heavy loss of trees and significant damage to their greens. Hail also damaged homes and barns. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | $50,000 | Shed, barn and tree damage was noted on a social media posted in the city of Winthrop. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Several trees and numerous large branches were down across Winthrop. |
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Winthrop | - | The storm total was 4.95 inches of rainfall. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | The local emergency manage indicated that numerous trees were blown down or uprooted between Winthrop and Gaylord. |
| July 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Winthrop | - | Three different trained spotters saw a funnel cloud just northwest and north of Lafayette. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Winthrop | - | The final swath of large hail, up to 1.75 inches in diameter, moved across central Sibley County between Fernando, and southeast of Winthrop. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | The Minnesota Department of Transportation wind sensor west of Winthrop measured a wind gust of 62 mph. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Power lines were blown down northeast of Winthrop. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | There were numerous reports of large trees blown down from south of Winthrop, to the Nicollet County border near Lafayette. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Power outages occurred in the city of Winthrop due to strong winds bringing down large branches across power lines. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | A measured wind gust from a wind sensor of the Department of Transportation. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Numerous large tree branches were blown down in Winthrop county park. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Winthrop | - | Crop damage was reported due to the combination of strong winds and hail around Winthrop. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Measured by MNDOT mesonet sensor. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Measured by MNDOT mesonet sensor. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Numerous trees were downed. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Numerous trees down, including some on a camper, a house and a garage. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Numerous large branches down, including one which crashed through the windshield of a car. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Shed destroyed. Few trees down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Shed destroyed. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Winthrop | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Large trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winthrop | - | Roof damage to chicken barn. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Winthrop | - | A tornado lifted a porch from a home and carried about 300 feet and leveled a barn on a farmstead. Several large trees were blown down. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Winthrop | - | Four grain bins toppled by strong winds. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Winthrop | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Winthrop | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaylord | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Gibbon | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| New Auburn | 11.6 miles | 11 | |
| New Rome | 14.5 miles | 11 | |
| Arlington | 15.8 miles | 11 | |
| Rush River | 17.5 miles | 9 | |
| Green Isle | 21.2 miles | 11 | |
| Jessenland | 23.6 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 Winthrop | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q670155 | 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 654281. 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.