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Glyndon, Minnesota

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Glyndon City. It lies in ZIP code area 56547. The Survey maps it on the Glyndon North quadrangle. 1,306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Glyndon within Clay County

On record in Glyndon

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

Glyndon fell from 1,394 to 1,306 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
20101,394
20201,306-88 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 23 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Glyndon between 2004 and 2016, burning about 17 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
7 May 2004Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2016Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Glyndon: 4 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
Benedict Dredge Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Glyndon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grant Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Olness PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glyndon in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindGlyndon$1,000Four inch diameter tree branches were blown off trees at the Buffalo River State Park.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station at 3 meters.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-Roofing was torn off a trailer home.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-Trees were uprooted, causing sporadic power outages.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-A semi truck and trailer were blown off highway 10.
July 2018HailGlyndon-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Glyndon-A brief touchdown was noted in a photo and report in an open field near the Buffalo River. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-Large branches were blown down.
June 2009HailGlyndon-The visibility also dropped to around 300 feet in heavy rain.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-Shingles were torn off a roof and numerous branches were blown down.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Glyndon-A tornado briefly tracked through a wheat field.
June 2003Flash FloodGlyndon-The MN Highway Patrol reported water over Highway 10.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGlyndon-no account filed
September 2000HailGlyndon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Dilworth6.6 miles24
Averill6.8 miles23
Sabin7.7 miles24
Muskoda9.2 miles9
Greenwood Communities9.2 miles25
Downer9.7 miles9
Finkle9.9 miles24
Moorhead10.0 miles25

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 GlyndonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231611The 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 644192. 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.