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Cambridge, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cambridge City. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. It stands on Beckins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle. 9,611 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

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Cambridge within Isanti County

On record in Cambridge

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

Cambridge grew from 8,111 to 9,611 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
20108,111
20209,611+1,500 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Cambridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cambridge in 59 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 27 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Tornado (F1)Cambridge3 hurt, $1,500,000Tornado touched down one mile west of Cambridge and moved east through western and southern Cambridge. Lifted off ground 16 minutes later, about seven miles east of Cambridge. Twenty homes, two apartment buildings, a senior citizen center, a hospital and a water treatment plant were damaged or destroyed. Heaviest property damage in Carraige Hills Drive Housing Development. Agricultural damage to 500 acres. There were three minor injuries.
October 1996Tornado (F1)Cambridge1 hurtno account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCambridge$100,000In addition to a trained spotter measured wind speed of 63 MPH east of Cambridge, several large trees were blown over at the Pine Village Mobile Home Park in Cambridge.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCambridge$50,000Bleachers blown over. Portion of Walmart greenhouse ripped off and destroyed.
August 2022Flash FloodCambridge$5,000Several observations from local media to law enforcement indicated flooding occurring in the Cambridge city limits. The local cooperative observer reported 4.38 inches of rainfall in less than 2 hours with pictures around the city indicating stalled cars in flooded roadways. In addition, a local business had water damage from the runoff.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCambridge$5,000The swath of damaging wind that started 4 W Princeton in Mille Lacs County at 0400 persisted to just southwest of Cambridge. Numerous trees were felled.
May 2022HailCambridge-There was a social media picture of 1.25 inch hail.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCambridge-A large tree was blown down on Emerson Avenue.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCambridge-The wind was measured by a trained spotter.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCambridge-A large tree was blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Two trees toppled.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Few trees down.
August 2007HailCambridge-Hailed on south side of town, along County Road 43.
June 2007HailCambridge-Hail was reported at numerous locations across Cambridge.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Large tree limbs downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Tree blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCambridge-A trailer was blown into the street.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Trees were downed.
September 2005Flash FloodCambridge-Main Street was flooded by 6 inches of water and a washout was reported at the Main Street and 6th Avenue intersection. Water also overflowed onto sidewalks and nearby yards. Traffic was unable to pass through flooded North Main Street. Cars were stalled in high water and several basements were flooded across town. Manhole covers also popped off due to the pressure of water flowing through the storm drains. The official weather observer for Cambridge recorded 4.60 inches of rain during the storm. A spotter on the south end of Cambridge recorded 5.10 inches and the DNR office in Cambridge recorded 5.55 inches. Other rainfall totals included 4.95 inches two miles northeast of Bradford, 4.50 inches 5 miles northwest of Bethel, and 3.80 inches 1.5 miles west of Stanchfield.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Small trees were downed.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Trees and power lines were downed.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindCambridge-A spotter estimated a wind gust between 60 and 65 MPH near the intersection of highways 47 and 95.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindCambridge-A tree was downed.
October 2004Funnel CloudCambridge-A funnel cloud was spotted by the public west of Rush Lake just east of the Isanti County line.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Several trees down.
June 2001HailCambridge-Numerous cars damaged.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Large tree felled on County Road 1.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Tree toppled. Estimated windspeed.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Trees toppled. Estimated windspeed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Tree blown down. Estimated windspeed.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCambridge-A radio transmitter was blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Strong thunderstorm winds toppled a windmill and damaged several buildings south of Cambridge.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCambridge-Several large trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2014HailCambridge-no account filed
July 2011HailCambridge-no account filed
July 2011HailCambridge-no account filed
July 2011HailCambridge-no account filed
August 2008HailCambridge-no account filed
August 2008HailCambridge-no account filed
August 2008HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2007HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2005HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2004HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2004HailCambridge-no account filed
April 2002HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2002HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2002HailCambridge-no account filed
June 2001HailCambridge-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCambridge-no account filed
May 1998HailCambridge-no account filed
July 1996LightningCambridge-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCambridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Edgewood2.5 miles11
Minnesota Boys Town2.8 miles11
Bodum3.7 miles11
Stanley4.1 miles11
Grandy4.6 miles11
Walbo5.5 miles12
Isanti5.8 miles12
Springvale5.9 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 CambridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000191The 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 640789. 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.

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.