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.
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
Carver Historic Districtlisted 1980- King Oscar's Settlementlisted 1980
Population over time
3 figuresCarver 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 724 | |
| 2010 | 3,724 | |
| 2020 | 5,829 | +2,105 (+57%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lake Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
58 since 1995Regional 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 ceremony | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BOARDWALK2 |
| 1 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BOARDWALK1 |
| 25 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | HARTUNG |
| 21 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RAPIDS |
| 2 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LOUISVILLE SWAMP 3 |
| 12 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RAPIDS LAKE 1 |
| 11 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | CHASKA |
| 8 July 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | GATE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Rock Prod Inc | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Carver County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Eggum Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mueller Sand and Gravel Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mueller Sand and Gravel Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Lightning | Carver | 1 hurt | Man slightly injured by bolt, taken to local hospital for observation. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | $25,000 | Severe 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Carver | - | 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | Carver | - | A local observer had a 12 hour rainfall report of 6.13 inches. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Carver | - | A measured rainfall total of 2.83 inches fell in a four hour period. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Carver | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | - | Several large trees were blown down in Carver, Minnesota. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | - | Tree down across County Road 45. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | - | Three to four inch diameter tree down, 3 to 4 inch tree limbs felled. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | - | Grandstand and dugout at baseball park destroyed. Construction trailer knocked over. Roof ripped off apartment building. Major damage to house. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | - | Several trees blown down. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Carver | - | Hail accumulated to a depth of 2 inches. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Carver | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Carver | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Carver | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Carver | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Carver | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Carver | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carver | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Carver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1946865 | The 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.








