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Carver, Minnesota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Carver City. It lies in ZIP code area 55315. It stands on Carver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Victoria quadrangle. 5,829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Carver within Carver County

On record in Carver

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

3 figures

Carver grew from 724 to 5,829 between 1860 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
1860724
20103,724
20205,829+2,105 (+57%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Carver between 1995 and 2015, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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
Recreation and ceremony38
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBOARDWALK2
1 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBOARDWALK1
25 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeHARTUNG
21 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeRAPIDS
2 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeLOUISVILLE SWAMP 3
12 August 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeRAPIDS LAKE 1
11 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeCHASKA
8 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeGATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carver County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Carver: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Bryan Rock Prod IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Carver County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Eggum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mueller Sand and Gravel Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mueller Sand and Gravel Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carver County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carver in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1999LightningCarver1 hurtMan slightly injured by bolt, taken to local hospital for observation.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCarver$25,000Severe wind gusts caused a roof of a gas station to blow down in Carver, Minnesota. The damage was confined to gas pumps and a metal roof.
June 2018Flash FloodCarver-Rainfall rates were nearly 2 inches per hour as thunderstorms began to train along the Minnesota River around Belle Plaine and Carver. A few local private rain gauges and radar estimates reported nearly 3 to 4 inches of rain within two hours around Carver. A Twitter picture was sent that provided details of debris flowing over the road near Jonathan Carver Parkway, and Main Street in Carver, due to the excessive rainfall. There was an unofficial report of 7 inches of rainfall during the morning around the same area where flooding occurred.
June 2014Heavy RainCarver-A local observer had a 12 hour rainfall report of 6.13 inches.
June 2013Heavy RainCarver-A measured rainfall total of 2.83 inches fell in a four hour period.
August 2010Flash FloodCarver-Several inches of rain fell across a large portion of Carver County between 1 and 4 AM CST. Some areas in the town of Carver, Minnesota had 8 inches of flowing water over most of their city streets during the height of the storm.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCarver-Several large trees were blown down in Carver, Minnesota.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCarver-Tree down across County Road 45.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCarver-Three to four inch diameter tree down, 3 to 4 inch tree limbs felled.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCarver-Grandstand and dugout at baseball park destroyed. Construction trailer knocked over. Roof ripped off apartment building. Major damage to house. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCarver-Several trees blown down.
October 1997HailCarver-Hail accumulated to a depth of 2 inches.
June 2025HailCarver-no account filed
April 2022HailCarver-no account filed
May 2011HailCarver-no account filed
June 2007HailCarver-no account filed
May 2001HailCarver-no account filed
June 1999HailCarver-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCarver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carver 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
Chaska2.2 miles19
Jonathan2.9 miles19
Dahlgren3.2 miles18
East Union4.3 miles11
Augusta4.4 miles18
Hazeltine5.2 miles19
Victoria6.8 miles18
Cologne8.3 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 CarverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1946865The 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 640944. 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.