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Albertville, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Albertville City. It lies in ZIP code area 55301. The Survey maps it on the Saint Michael quadrangle. 7,896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Albertville within Wright County

On record in Albertville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Albertville grew from 7,044 to 7,896 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
20107,044
20207,896+852 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

2,477 words on this township

History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Albertville City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Albertville, formerly called St. Michael Station or St. Michael's Station, is an enterprising business center, and an excellent trading point for a good farming district. The village is ineorporated, connected with the outside world by both telephone and telegraph and has excellent schools. Its business men are up and doing, carry large, well selected stocks and are making a bid for patronage in the way of prices that is felt in all sections. Albertville has about 450 inhabitants and is surrounded with as desirable farm lands as are to be found in this great state. It is located on the Great Northern railroad, fifteen miles northeast of Buffalo, the county seat. Lately the city has built cement walks on her principal streets which add much to her appearance. Large quantities of grain, live stock, potatoes, butter and eggs are shipped from here every year.

Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Albertville City - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Albertville between 1993 and 2015, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
29 April 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2010Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Albertville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Barthel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albertville in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2002Tornado (F1)Albertville$1,400,000A rare late night tornado struck a subdivision in Albertville. According to a damage survey conducted by NWS personnel, it touched down on the eastern edge of Cedar Creek Golf Course, trekked straight east, and dissipated in a city park just west of the railroad tracks. It completely tore the roof off of one home. Roofs were partially off a number of other homes, many attached garages collapsed, and a couple of houses were rotated on their foundation. About 20 homes were damaged, nine of which sustained significant damage.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Reports of a tree down between St Michael and Albertville.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Trees down in Albertville.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-County dispatch reported light pole down in Albertville.
May 2012Heavy RainAlbertville-A local observer measured 3.73 inches in the last 24 hours.
May 2012Heavy RainAlbertville-A local observer measured 3.48 inches in the last 24 hours.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-A street light was blown down in Albertville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Twelve inch diameter tree toppled blocking road at intersection of Highway 37 and Interstate 94.
May 2008HailAlbertville-Vehicle and roof damage also reported.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Three to four inch branches felled.
September 2006HailAlbertville-Hail occurred along Interstate 94.
June 2005HailAlbertville-Penny sized hail fell in Otsego Township.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Few trees down, some over roads.
September 2005HailAlbertville-Hail dented siding and broke windows.
June 2003Flash FloodAlbertville-County wide flooding. Six to twelve inches of rain were unofficaially recorded across much of Wright county. The heaviest rainfall was in the eastern portions of the county. Many streets were impassable in the areas around Albertville, Otsego, and St Michael. Some roads were washed out. Many basements were flooded, including a few where the water level reached the basement ceiling. Sandbagging of homes was necessary at the Albert Villas in Albertville. Many crops were under water.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Numerous trees blown down. Scattered roof damage. In neighboring Otsego, silos toppled and a mobile home destroyed. Roof damage in Otsego and St. Michael. Several Otsego elementary schools experience roof damage. Estimated windspeed.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindAlbertville-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2022HailAlbertville-no account filed
May 2011HailAlbertville-no account filed
May 2008HailAlbertville-no account filed
May 2008HailAlbertville-no account filed
May 2008HailAlbertville-no account filed
May 2008HailAlbertville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Saint Michael2.0 miles15
Otsego4.2 miles13
Hanover5.7 miles15
Monticello8.8 miles16
Rockford11.1 miles15
Buffalo Manor East11.6 miles12
Rockford Riverview Estates11.6 miles15
Bufflao Manor11.7 miles12

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 AlbertvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2009839The 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 639253. 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.