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Wykoff, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fillmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55990. The Survey maps it on the Wykoff quadrangle. 432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Wykoff within Fillmore County

On record in Wykoff

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

Population over time

2 figures

Wykoff fell from 444 to 432 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
2010444
2020432-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wykoff between 1995 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
6 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1996Smoking3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 November 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Wykoff: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Grabau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brehmer MineIronPast Producer
Engel MineIronPast Producer
Evers No 2 MineIronPast Producer
Hewitt MineIronPast Producer
Holsapple MineIronPast Producer
Otto Meyer JrIronPast Producer
Sorum Portable Crusher No. 1IronProducer
Van Sande MineIronPast Producer
Winter MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wykoff in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Wykoff$20,000A tornado briefly touched down east of Spring Valley. A cattle barn was heavily damaged just north of County Highway 16.
August 2000HailWykoff$18,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWykoff$5,000The winds from a thunderstorm damaged the roof to the Kingsland Middle School.
August 2000HailWykoff$3,500no account filed
May 2025HailWykoff-A trained spotter reported hail up to ping pong ball sized with the majority of stones being penny to quarter sized.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWykoff-A report of a 64 mph wind gust from a trained spotter was relayed through dispatch.
June 2018Heavy RainWykoff-The COOP observer east of Spring Valley measured 6.62 inches of rain.
May 2017HailWykoff-no account filed
November 2015HailWykoff-no account filed
July 2013HailWykoff-no account filed
August 2004HailWykoff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Freiheit Spring2.6 miles8
Fillmore2.9 miles8
Forestville5.3 miles8
Washington6.0 miles9
Spring Valley6.6 miles7
Carimona6.7 miles8
Fountain7.3 miles8
Cherry Grove8.3 miles7

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 WykoffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2249609The 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 654401. 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.