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Cromwell, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Cromwell City. It lies in ZIP code area 55726. The Survey maps it on the Cromwell West quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Cromwell within Carlton County

Population over time

3 figures

Cromwell grew from 143 to 240 between 2002 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
2002143
2010234+91 (+64%)
2020240+6 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Cromwell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
12 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2010Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cromwell: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Duluth Ready MixStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Heikala MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Heikala PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lindholm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cromwell in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCromwell$2,000Trees were blown down onto Minnesota Highway 73.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCromwell-A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCromwell-A large tree, about 80' tall, and many other trees, were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCromwell-Several trees were blown down and snapped off over Highway 73.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCromwell-Several 9 inch diameter trees were blown down.
June 2022HailCromwell-no account filed
June 2018HailCromwell-no account filed
June 2015HailCromwell-no account filed
May 2007HailCromwell-no account filed
August 1997HailCromwell-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindCromwell-no account filed
July 1996HailCromwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Woodbury4.0 miles7
Corona6.3 miles7
Wright6.6 miles6
Kettle River13.1 miles7
Automba13.1 miles5
Sawyer13.3 miles9
Mahtowa15.3 miles7
Big Lake Chapel15.5 miles8

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 CromwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232948The 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 642448. 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.