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Farmington, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Farmington City. It lies in ZIP code area 55024. The Survey maps it on the Farmington quadrangle. 23,632 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Farmington within Dakota County

On record in Farmington

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington grew from 21,086 to 23,632 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
201021,086
202023,632+2,546 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Farmington in 2018, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota 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 Farmington: 1 producer. 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
Northwestern Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this place

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2010Tornado (EF1)Farmington1 hurt, $750,000A Storm Survey determined that an EF-1 tornado tracked to the northeast from three miles northwest of Farmington, to 3.3 miles north of Farmington, Minnesota. ||The damage consisted of the following; ||A few homes had large sections of roof structure removed. Numerous homes had significant roof damage, with loss of vinyl or metal siding. In addtion, numerous garage doors had collapsed or were pushed inward. One home had their entire garage shifted off its foundation by over 5 inches. Another home had their entire garage collapse, only leaving the main home intact. Due to several structures that had their foundations shifted and walls completely blown down, this tornado was rated a high end EF-1, which is approximately 105 mph. Most of the tornado damage was high end EF-0, or low end EF-1, or approximately 70 to 90 mph. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or blown down. Several trees had diameters in excess of 30 inches.
July 2006LightningFarmington$1,000,000A lightning strike caused a fire at the Donnely Farms in rural Farmington on Flagstaff Avenue. Approximately 500 hay bales were burned in the fire, causing an estimated 1 million dollars in damage. Information provided by Northfield News newspaper.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFarmington$500,000Over 400 trees up to 3 feet in diameter and many power lines were downed across the city by winds estimated up to 70 MPH. Many trees blocked roads and a handful of trees fell onto buildings and cars. The damage was so widespread that a state of emergency was put in place shortly after the storm ended until streets could be cleared.
July 2005LightningFarmington$75,000The roof of a home on Eureka Avenue was struck by lightning. The resulting fire caused $75,000 damage to the structure.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindFarmington$25,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFarmington$5,000A large tree limb was blown down, and fell on a truck near 225th Street, and Chippendale Avenue.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFarmington$3,000A few large tree branches were blown down in Farmington.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Multiple trees down on powerlines in Farmington.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A few trees were blown down in southern Dakota County with the worst area in the city of Farmington.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Several trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Highway 50 and Highway 3 in Farmington.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A few trees were blown down near Farmington.
July 2013Heavy RainFarmington-A measured rainfall amount of 3.30 inches fell in less than 3 hours.
May 2012Heavy RainFarmington-An observer in Farmington, Minnesota, measured 4.37 inches of rainfall over the past 24 hours.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A few trees were blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Several trees were blown down across western Dakota County which included the cities of Lakeville, and Farmington.
August 2010Flash FloodFarmington-County Road 50 was covered with six inches of water at one point east of Pilot Knob Road, near Farmington, Minnesota. In addition, 9 inches of water was reported along Chippendale Ave West, near Ash St, and Elm St. 1 to 2 feet of water was reported in fields south of 225th St. West. During the evening, several observers across Dakota County had measured rainfall amounts between three and five inches between 8 and 11 pm.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Wind gust measured at Farmington Middle School West.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Eighteen inch diameter tree down at the FAA facility as reported by NWS CWSU employee.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Tree branches were downed.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A wind gust of 66 MPH was recorded by a spotter. A large deck was blown off a house.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Measured by trained spotter.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Fourteen trees toppled in rural Farmington.
June 1998Flash FloodFarmington-Water covered numerous roadways in county.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Measured at intersection of Pilot Knob Rd and 193rd Street.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Estimated windspeed.
July 2023HailFarmington-no account filed
July 2023HailFarmington-no account filed
May 2022HailFarmington-no account filed
May 2022HailFarmington-no account filed
May 2022HailFarmington-no account filed
August 2020HailFarmington-no account filed
August 2018HailFarmington-no account filed
July 2017HailFarmington-no account filed
July 2016HailFarmington-no account filed
June 2015HailFarmington-no account filed
April 2004HailFarmington-no account filed
July 2002HailFarmington-no account filed
August 2002HailFarmington-no account filed
May 2001HailFarmington-no account filed
May 2001HailFarmington-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFarmington-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFarmington-no account filed
March 1998HailFarmington-no account filed
May 1998HailFarmington-no account filed
June 1997HailFarmington-no account filed
July 1997HailFarmington-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindFarmington-no account filed
October 1996HailFarmington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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
Lakeville5.3 miles12
Eureka Center5.4 miles11
Antlers Park6.7 miles12
Castle Rock6.7 miles11
Rosemount6.9 miles12
Empire7.0 miles13
Apple Valley7.4 miles12
Hampton7.8 miles11

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 FarmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1986533The 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 643570. 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.