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Center City, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chisago Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55012. The Survey maps it on the Lindstrom quadrangle. 629 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Center City within Chisago County

On record in Center City

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

Center City grew from 628 to 629 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
2010628
2020629+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Center City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning18
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
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
7 May 2020Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2019Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2019Debris and open burning2.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center City in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 2024Thunderstorm WindCenter City-Some trees were blown down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCenter City-There was a report of 4 to 6 inch branches and trees down in Center City.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCenter City-A number of trees and power lines were downed, with some trees and large branches landing on houses.
August 2007HailCenter City-Hail occurred near Chisago Lake Lutheran Church.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCenter City-Trees and power lines were downed.
July 1999Tornado (F0)Center City-Tornado touched down in open field.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCenter City-A few windows were damaged.
May 2024HailCenter City-no account filed
September 2014HailCenter City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chisago 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
Lindstrom1.7 miles14
Elm Estates2.1 miles14
Shafer3.7 miles23
Chisago City4.1 miles14
Croix Estates4.3 miles14
Bonnie Glen5.2 miles14
Palmdale6.1 miles23
Franconia6.8 miles24

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 Center CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926706The 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 641045. 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.