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Circle Pines, Minnesota

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Circle Pines City. It lies in ZIP code area 55014. The Survey maps it on the Circle Pines quadrangle. 5,025 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Circle Pines within Anoka County

Population over time

2 figures

Circle Pines grew from 4,918 to 5,025 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
20104,918
20205,025+107 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Circle Pines between 1994 and 2020, burning about 928 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Other causesunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2000Arson/incendiarism54 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Circle Pines: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Anoka County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Arsenal Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Circle Pines in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017HailCircle Pines$650,000Windows broken due to wind-driven hail.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCircle Pines$20,000A storm survey determined that thunderstorm wind gusts of nearly 65 mph caused two dozen trees to be blown down in the City of Lexington, and also in extreme southeast Blaine, from the intersection of Restwood Road and Syndicate Avenue, to just west of 85th Avenue and Lexington Avenue. All trees were toppled from north to south.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCircle Pines-A tree and several large branches were blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCircle Pines-Several large trees were downed as well as some large branches broken off of trees. Two of the trees were blocking a road. There was also a public report of a tree that fell through a house. Another report from the same area via social media, showing photos of the downed trees. Time was estimated based on radar.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCircle Pines-Several reports of multiple trees blown down, or uprooted in the Lino Lakes area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCircle Pines-Four to six inch tree limbs snapped off one mile East of Lexington and Interstate 35W intersection.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCircle Pines-Roof damage. Shed and trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2025HailCircle Pines-no account filed
July 2019HailCircle Pines-no account filed
July 2019HailCircle Pines-no account filed
July 2019HailCircle Pines-no account filed
May 2018HailCircle Pines-no account filed
June 2017HailCircle Pines-no account filed
May 2013HailCircle Pines-no account filed
July 2009HailCircle Pines-no account filed
May 2008HailCircle Pines-no account filed
August 2007HailCircle Pines-no account filed
August 2002HailCircle Pines-no account filed
June 1998HailCircle Pines-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Lexington0.7 miles19
Lino Lakes3.4 miles19
Blaine4.5 miles19
Centerville5.2 miles19
Spring Lake Park5.4 miles22
Johnsville5.5 miles19
Oak Park6.2 miles20
Northdale7.1 miles20

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 Circle PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2246527The 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 641229. 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.