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Fridley, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Fridley City. It lies in ZIP code area 55432. It stands on Rice Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minneapolis North quadrangle. 29,590 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Fridley within Anoka County

On record in Fridley

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

Fridley grew from 27,208 to 29,590 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
201027,208
202029,590+2,382 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Fridley between 1998 and 2019, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Debris and open burning6.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Arson/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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fridley: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Arsenal Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone

Every working recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fridley in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindFridley2 hurtno account filed
May 1998HailFridley$1,000,000Scattered damage from wind driven hail.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Fridley$500,000An EF-1 tornado continued into Anoka County from the Camden Bridge along the Mississippi River, north-northeast to the east side of Fridley, to Spring Lake where it moved into Ramsey County. ||Damage was extensive along the path where it moved into a rail yard and a large industrial facility. A large metal building roof was ripped off in the industrial area, and eight train cars were tipped over where EF-1 damage was observed. Several warehouses sustained damaged along Miami Street where a roof was blown off. ||The tornado then moved across residential sections of Fridley, before it weakened as it continued northeast across the east side of Fridley, near Spring Lake. Damage was confined to trees blown down along the path, then moved into Ramsey County.
July 2011Flash FloodFridley$500,000Several main highways, and secondary roads had significant flooding, with up to four feet of standing water in southern Anoka County. A train was derailed near Fridley due to the excessive rainfall that caused erosion along a culvert.
June 2025Flash FloodFridley-Rice Creek overflowing its banks at University Ave NE.
July 2016Heavy RainFridley-Heavy rain of 2 to 3 inches resulted in ponding of water at intersections in southern Fridley and Columbia Heights.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFridley-A large tree was blown down at the intersection of Highway 47 and 69th Avenue.
November 2012HailFridley-A video from the public contained information of quarter size hail that fell from Fridley, to near Spring Lake Park, Minnesota.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFridley-Several large tree limbs were blown down, and caused power outages around Fridley.
August 2011Heavy RainFridley-An off duty Meteorologist measured 3.21 inches of rainfall in the past four hours.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFridley-Seven inch diameter trees down at Highway 65 and I-694.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFridley-Trees and power lines were downed in Columbia Heights. Power outages were reported in Coon Rapids and Fridley.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFridley-A few trees were downed onto power lines.
September 2005Flash FloodFridley-A car was submerged in flood waters.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindFridley-Large tree limbs were downed across power lines near Moore Lake.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindFridley-A few trees were downed.
September 2000LightningFridley-Fires, power outages, gas meters blown off 4 homes.
September 2000Flash FloodFridley-Flooding of several basements and intersections in Fridley, Columbia Heights and Hilltop.
September 2000HailFridley-Hail occurred in Columbia Heights.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFridley-Trees down. Estimated Windspeed.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFridley-Tree blown down along East River Rd. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFridley-Large trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2016HailFridley-no account filed
May 2012HailFridley-no account filed
August 2007HailFridley-no account filed
September 2005HailFridley-no account filed
March 1998HailFridley-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
Spring Lake Park2.0 miles22
Hilltop2.4 miles22
Coon Rapids2.7 miles21
Columbia Heights3.1 miles21
Coon Creek4.9 miles20
Blaine5.4 miles19
Oak Park5.7 miles20
Thompson Riverview Terrace6.1 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 FridleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985235The 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 643953. 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.