Water Towers By Type

There are 11 different types of Water Towers in Minnesota. A total of 1118 towers & tanks exist in Minnesota (29 have been demolished). There are 928 Towers and 161 Tanks that exist.

Cone Top Water Towers

You can tell a Cone Top Water Tower from its distinct cone shaped top. These tend to be on the older side and often have a smaller capacity.

Quantity = 108

Average Size = 61,500 gallons

Average AGE = 86 years

Cone Top Water Towers in Minnesota

Adams Climax Emmons Jeffers Murdock Shelly Vernon Center 1

Altura Comfrey Erskine 1 Kandiyohi New Munich Silver Lake Wabasso 1

Alvarado Cottonwood 2 Floodwood Kasson 3 New Trier Skyline 2 Waconia 1

Amboy Courtland 1 Freeport 1 Kensington 2 Nielsville Spring Grove 1 Waldorf

Arden Hills 1 Cuyuna Good Thunder Kettle River Norcross St. Cloud 5 Waltham

Argyle Deerwood Hamburg 2 Lafayette Odessa St. Paul 12 Wanamingo 1

Bagley 1 Delavan Hampton 1 Le Roy Orr Stephen Wanda

Bird Island 1 & 2 Dexter 1 Harmony Lowry 2 Osseo 1 Stewart Watkins

Biwabik 2 Duluth 7,8 & 9 Hayfield 1 Maplewood 2 Ostrander 1 Sunray West Concord

Blooming Prairie Dumont Hayward Marble Plummer Swanville Winger

Breezy Point Easton Hendricks Marietta Raymond Taconite Winthrop 1

Brownsdale Eden Valley Heron Lake Milaca 2 Richmond 1 Trimont Eveleth 2 Buffalo Lake Elk River 4 Hills Minneapolis 1,2 & 6 Rose Creek Trommald

Buhl Elkton Isle 1 Minnesota Lake Russell 1 Univ. of Minn. 1

Canton Ely 1 Jasper Minnetonka Beach 1+2 Ruthton Verndale 1

Flat Top

Flat Top Water Towers have four or more legs. These tend to be on the older side and often have a smaller capacity.

Quantity = 16

Average Size = 170,000 gallons

Average AGE = 90 years

Flat Top Water Towers in Minnesota

Beardsley Coleraine 1 Hanska Middle River

Bellingham Cyrus Hibbing 1 Owatonna 5

Belview Donnelly Kelliher 2 Wood Lake

Brooklyn Center 3 Gibbon Mabel 1 Wykoff

Multi Leg Wide Tank

Multi Leg Wide Tank water towers have 4 or more legs supporting a large tank that is spherical in shape. These tend to have a larger capacity than Cone Top water towers.

Quantity = 223

Average Size = 458,500 gallons

Average AGE = 55 years

Multi Leg Wide Tank Water Towers in Minnesota

Adrian Coon Rapids 2 & 4 Isle 2 Mountain Lake Rosemount 4 Winthrop 2

Aitkin Cottage Grove 1 & 5 Ivanhoe Nerstrand Roseville 1 Wolverton

Albany Crookston 1 & 2 Jackson 1&4 New Brighton 1 Round Lake Worthington 1

Albert Lea 1,3,5,6 Dalton Jordan 2 New Hope 1 Rushmore 1 Wyoming 2

Alden Darwin Kasota New York Mills Sabin Zumbrota 1

Alexandria 1 & 2 Dawson 1 Kasson 1 Newfolden Sacred Heart Lake Elmo 2

Anoka 2 & 3 Detroit Lakes 1 Kennedy North St. Paul 1 & 2 Sandstone

Askov Eagle Bend Kenyon Northfield 1 & 2 Sartell 1&2

Atwater East Grand Forks 1 & 2 Kimball Northome 1 Slayton

Austin 1 & 2 Edina 2 La Salle Norwood Young America 2 Sleepy Eye 1

Babbitt 1 Ellsworth Lake Lillian Okabena South Haven 1

Barnum Eveleth 1 Lancaster Olivia Spring Lake Park 1&2

Baxter 2 Fairmont 3 & 4 Lanesboro1 & 2 Orono 2 Spring Valley

Bayport 1 Foley Le Sueur 3 Osseo 2 St. Anthony 2

Bemidji 1 & 3 Forest Lake 2 Lewiston Owatonna 2,3 &7 St. Bonifacius

Big Lake 2 Freeborn Lewisville Pine City 2 St. Cloud 4

Bigfork Fridley 4 Lexington Pine Island 1 St. Hilaire

Blaine 2 Fulda Lindstrom 1 Pine River 1 & 2 St. Louis Park 1 & 3

Bloomington 2 Geneva Lino Lakes 1 Pipestone 2 St. Paul 11, 14, 15 & 16

Bowlus Glencoe 1 & 2 Little Falls 2 Plato Stacy 1

Brainerd 2 & 3 Glenville Littlefork Plymouth 1,3 & 5 Staples

Breckenridge Golden Valley Luverne 2 Princeton 2 Stewartville 2

Brewster Gonvick Madelia Prinsburg Thief River Falls 2

Brooklyn Center 1 & 2 Grand Meadow Magnolia Prior Lake 2 Ulen

Brooklyn Park 2 Grand Rapids 1 & 2 Mankato 2 Randolph Univ. of Minn. 4

Buffalo 2 Granite Falls 3 Mapleview Red Rock Rurial 1,2&3 Upsala

Cambridge 3 & 5 Greenbush Maplewood 3 Redby 2 Virginia 2

Camp Ripley 1,2&3 Grygla Marshall 2 Renville 1 Wadena

Canby Hackensack Menahga 2 Rice Warroad

Carlos Hayfield 2 Mille Lacs Reservation 1&2 Richfield 1&2 Waseca 1 & 2

Circle Pines Hewitt Milroy Robbinsdale 2&4 Wayzata

Clarkfield Hinckley 1 Montrose 2 Rochester 15&16 Wells

Clearbrook 2 Hopkins 2 Mora 2 Rock Cty. Rural Westbrook

Cokato 1 Howard Lake 2 Motley Rockford 2 Willmar 2 & 4

Conger International Falls 2 Mound 2 Roseau 2 Windom 2

Multi Leg Round Tank

Multi Leg Round Tank water towers have 4 or more legs supporting a round tank. These tanks tend to have a capacity less than 100,000 gallons.

Quantity = 18

Average Size = 51,800 gallons

Average AGE = 55 years

Multi Leg Round Top Water Towers in Minnesota

Balaton Clarks Grove Hendrum Kinney Pequot Lakes 1 Twin Lakes

Bigelow Cromwell Hitterdal Oslo Randall Waubun

Ceylon Halstad Hollandale Pemberton Rockville 1 Winton

One Thin Leg Flat Top

One Thin Leg water towers have a small leg that holds up the water reservoir. They will have a flat top. These tend to have a smaller capacity.

Quantity = 72

Average Size = 81,000 gallons

Average AGE = 23 years

One Big Leg

One Big Leg water towers have a large leg holding up the top tank of the water tower. These have the third largest capacity of all the different kinds, often having a capacity of more than a million gallons.

Quantity = 162

Average Size = 1,171,000 gallons

Average AGE = 29 years

One Big Leg Water Towers in Minnesota

Alexandria 3 Cloquet Hugo 1 MN State Fair Pine City 1 St. Francis

Andover 1+2 Cokato 2 Inver Grove Heights 1+2+5 Minnetonka 2+5 Pipestone 3 St. Joseph

Anoka 2 Coon Rapids 1+5 Isanti Minnetrista 2+3 Plymouth 2 St. Louis Park 4

Apple Valley 4 Corcoran Jordan 1 Montgomery Prior Lake 1 St. Michael 1+2

Arden Hills 2+3 Cottage Grove 2+6 Lake Elmo 1+3 Monticello 1 Ramsey 1+2 St. Paul Park 1

Baxter 1+3 Dayton Lakeville 2,4,5+6 Moorhead 4 Red Lake Falls St. Peter 1+3

Becker 1 Delano Le Sueur 2 Mora 1 Redby 1 Stillwater 2

Bemidji 2 Dundas 1 Lincoln Pipestone Rural 1+2 Morris Robbinsdale 1 Vadnais Heights 2

Blaine 1,3+5 Eagan 1 Lino Lakes 2,3+4 Mounds View Rochester 3 Waconia 3

Bloomington 1 Eden Prairie 2+3 Little Canada Mountain Iron 1 Rockford 1 West St. Paul

Brainerd 4 Edina 1 Little Falls 1 New Brighton 4 Rogers 1 White Bear Township 1

Brooklyn Center 4 Elk River 2,3+5 Long Prairie New Hope 2 Rosemont 1+2 White Bear Lake 1

Brooklyn Park 1 Fairmont 1 Mankato 1 New Ulm 3 Sartell 3 Windom 1

Cambridge 1 Faribault 1 Maple Grove 1+2 North Mankato 1+2 Sauk Centre Winona

Cannon Falls Farmington 2 Maple Lake Norwood Young America 3 Savage 4 Woodbury 1+5

Carver 1 Fergus Falls 1+2 Maplewood 1 Oak Park Heights 1 Shakopee 1 Worthington 2+3

Champlin 1+2 Fridley 2+7 Marshall 1 Oakdale 2+3 Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux 2 Wyoming 1

Chanhassen 1+4 Grand Rapids 3 Melrose 1+2 Orono 1 Shoreview 1+2

Chaska 1,2+3 Hastings 1+3 Mendota Heights Otsego 1,3+4 South St. Paul 2

Chisago City Hibbing 2+3 Milaca 1 Perham 1 St. Cloud 1,3,6+7

One Thin Leg Round Top

One Thin Leg water towers have a small leg that holds up the water reservoir. They will have a top that has a round shape.

Quantity = 341

Average Size = 351,200 gallons

Average AGE = 28 years

One Thin Leg Round Top Water Towers in Minnesota

Ada Cologne 1+2 Graceville Madison Plainview

Albert Lea 2+4 Columbia Heights Granada Madison Lake Prairie Island Dakota 1,2+3 Univ. of Minn. 2+3

Annandale Cook Granite Falls 2 Mahnomen Princeton 1+3 Vadnais Heights 1

Appleton Cottage Grove 6 Green Isle Mahtomedi 1+2 Proctor Vernon Center 2

Arlington Cottonwood 1 Green Lake Mantorville Ramsey 3 Victoria

Ashby Courtland 2 Greenfield Maple Plain Red Rock Rural 4 Virginia 3

Aurora 1 Crosby Grey Eagle Mapleton Red Wing 4+5 Waconia 2

Avon Danube Grove City Maplewood 4 Redwood Falls Waite Park 1+2

Babbitt 2 Dassel Hallock Mayer Renville 2 Walker 1+2

Bagley 2 Dawson 2 Hamburg 1 McGregor Rice Lake (Arnold) Wanamingo 2

Barnesville De Graff Hancock McIntosh Richmond 2 Warba

Battle Lake Deer Creek Hanley Falls Meadowlands Rochester (x9) Warren

Baudette Deer River Hartland Medford 1+2 Rockford 3 Watertown

Beaver Creek Dexter 2 Hawley Medina Rockville 2 Waterville

Becker 2+3 Dilworth Hermantown 2+3 Minnetonka 1,3,4+6 Rogers 2 Waverly

Belgrade Dodge Center 1+2 Hill City Minnetrista 1 Roseau 1 Welcome

Belle Plaine 1+2 Dover Hilltop Montevideo Rosemount 2 Wheaton

Benson Duluth 2,6+10 Hinckley 2 Montrose 1 Rothsay White Bear Township 2+3

Bertha Dundas 2 Holdingford Moorhead 1,2+3 Royalton Willmar 1

Big Lake 1+3 Eagle Lake Holland Moose Lake 1+2 Rush City 1+2 Willow River

Blackduck East Bethel Howard Lake 1 Morgan Rushford Winnebago

Blue Earth Edina 3+4 Hoyt Lakes 1 Mound 1 Sanborn Winsted

Bovey Elbow Lake Hugo 2 Nashwauk Sauk Rapids 1+2 Woodbury 3 +6

Braham Elgin Hutchinson 1,3+4 New Brighton 3 Savage 2+5 Wrenshall 1

Brooklyn Park 3 Elk River 1 Internation Falls 3 New Germany Sebeka Zimmerman 1+2

Brooten Elko New Market 1+2 Inver Grove Heights 3 New London Shakopee 3,4+5 Hampton 2

Browerville Ellendale Janesville New Prague 1+2 Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux 1

Buffalo 1,3+4 Ely 2 Karlstad New Richland Sherburn Blooming Prairie 2

Butterfield Elysian Kasson 2+4 New Ulm 1 Shorewood 1+2 Menahga 1

Byron 1+2 Empire Keewatin Nicollet Sioux Community (Lower+Upper)

Caledonia 1+2 Erskine 2 Kellogg North Branch 1,2+3 South St. Paul 1

Calumet Excelsior Kerkhoven North Kittson Rural 1 Spicer

Carlton Eyota Kiester Northfield 5 Spring Grove 2+3

Carver 2 Faribault 3 Lake Crystal 1 Norwood Young America 1 Spring Park

Cass Lake Fertile Lake Elmo Cimarron Oak Park Heights 2 Springfield

Center City Finlayson Lake Park Ogilvie 2 St. Charles 1+2

Centerville Forest Lake 1+3 Lakefield Oklee St. Clair

Chanhassen 3 Fosston Lakeville 1 Onamia St. James

Chatfield 1 Fountain Laporte Ortonville St. Martin

Chippewa Bois Forte Band Le Center Osakis St. Paul Park 2

Chokio Frazee Le Sueur 1+4 Otsego 2 Stacy 2+3

Clara City Garfield Leech Lake Res. Ottertail Stewartville 1

Claremont Gary Leonidas Owatonna 1+4 Thief River Falls 1

Clarissa Gaylord 1+2 Lester Prairie Park Rapids 1+2 Tonka Bay

Clear Lake Gilbert 1 Lindstrom 2 Parkers Prairie Tower-Soudan

Clearbrook 1 Glencoe 3 Litchfield Pelican Rapids Tracy

Clearwater 1+2 Glenwood 1 Long Lake Pequot Lakes 2 Truman

Clinton Glyndon Lonsdale Perham 2 Twin Valley

Cohasset 2 Goodhue Luverne 1 Pierz Two Harbors 1+2

Cold Spring 2+3 Goodview Lyle Pine Island 2 Tyler

Short Reservoir

The Short Reservoir is not supported by any 'legs'. Their diameter is larger than their height. They have a very large capacity.

Quantity = 82

Average Size = 1,816, 000 gallons

Average AGE = 46 years

Short Reservoir

Tall Reservoir

Just like the Short Reservoirs, Tall Reservoirs are not supported by any legs. They are taller than their diameter. They have a very large capacity, 1 million gallons or more. These have the second largest capacity of all the different kinds.

Quantity = 79

Average Size = 1,497,000 gallons

Average AGE = 49 years