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Chisago City, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chisago City City. It lies in ZIP code area 55013. The Survey maps it on the Forest Lake quadrangle. 5,558 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Chisago City within Chisago County

On record in Chisago 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

Chisago City grew from 4,967 to 5,558 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
20104,967
20205,558+591 (+12%)

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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Chisago City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
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
18 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2020Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago 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 Chisago City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
J. Lyman Erickson Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chisago County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chisago City in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2003Thunderstorm WindChisago City$500,000Scattered trees toppled.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindChisago City-Several large trees, up to 5 feet in diameter, were blown down south of Chisago Lakes and into Chisago Lakes Township.
July 2016Heavy RainChisago City-A trained spotter measured 3.07 inches of rain south of Chisago City.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindChisago City-Several trees were blown down near Chisago City, Minnesota.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindChisago City-Six inch diameter pine tree snapped off and deposited on power line.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindChisago City-Large branches were downed onto power lines.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindChisago City-Tree limbs, power lines, and a transformer were downed.
June 2002HailChisago City-Hail dented car.
July 2025HailChisago City-no account filed
May 2022HailChisago City-no account filed
August 2018HailChisago City-no account filed
August 2018HailChisago City-no account filed
May 2012HailChisago City-no account filed
June 2007HailChisago City-no account filed
June 2007HailChisago City-no account filed
June 2002HailChisago City-no account filed
July 1994HailChisago 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
Croix Estates0.2 miles14
Bonnie Glen1.3 miles14
Elm Estates2.2 miles14
Lindstrom2.5 miles14
Center City4.1 miles14
Stacy5.4 miles13
Wyoming6.2 miles14
Shafer7.6 miles23

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 Chisago CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2195827The 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 641169. 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.