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Golden Valley, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Golden Valley City. It lies in ZIP code area 55422. The Survey maps it on the Minneapolis North quadrangle. 22,552 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Golden Valley within Hennepin County

Population over time

2 figures

Golden Valley grew from 20,371 to 22,552 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
201020,371
202022,552+2,181 (+11%)

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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Golden Valley between 2000 and 2003, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Golden Valley: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Bentonite. 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
North Central Aggregate PitBentoniteProducer
Highway 18 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopkins PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone

Every working recorded in Hennepin 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
Robbinsdale1.7 miles21
Crystal1.7 miles21
Glenwood Junction1.8 miles26
New Hope2.8 miles21
Medicine Lake3.7 miles25
Mission Farms4.0 miles21
Saint Louis Park4.2 miles26
Kenwood Gables4.4 miles26

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 Golden ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q868848The 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 644201. 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.