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Fairhaven, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fair Haven Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55382. The Survey maps it on the South Haven quadrangle. 392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Fairhaven within Stearns County

On record in Fairhaven

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

Fairhaven grew from 358 to 392 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
2010358
2020392+34 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

In the county-history sources

2,060 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fair Haven Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fair Haven Township - 2,060 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fairhaven between 1999 and 2000, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance9.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 November 1999Recreation and ceremony22 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns 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 Fairhaven: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Anderson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Minnesota Rock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairhaven in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 6 hail, 1 flood, 1 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
March 2009FloodFairhaven$100,000Many roads in and around Fairhaven were under two to four feet of running water. County Emergency Managers and other local officials reported that several other county roads throughout the county had minor flooding due to the 2.5 to 3 inch of rainfall. ||In addition, sandbagging continued to take place in communities along the Sauk River Sauk Centre, Melrose, Cold Spring, Richmond, Waite Park. ||The Minnesota Department of Transportation closed approximately 6 miles of State Highway 22 north of Richmond, from County Road 43 to Highway 23 until further notice because of water over the road from the Chain of Lakes and the Sauk River.||On March 31, after flood waters receded, county officials reported minor road damage throughout the county, with some minor home damage in Twin Lakes.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindFairhaven-A large tree fell on a power line near Fairhaven.
July 2008HailFairhaven-Hail size was mainly nickel to quarter size.
April 2021HailFairhaven-no account filed
May 2008HailFairhaven-no account filed
June 2006HailFairhaven-no account filed
June 2005HailFairhaven-no account filed
April 2002HailFairhaven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
Kimball4.8 miles9
Marty8.4 miles8
Luxemburg9.2 miles10
Saint Augusta9.5 miles10
Rockville12.4 miles8
Saint Nicholas12.6 miles9
Pleasant Lake12.8 miles8
Cold Spring14.8 miles9

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 FairhavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430457The 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 643500. 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.