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Grant, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant City. It lies in ZIP code area 55082. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake East quadrangle. 3,966 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Grant within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Grant fell from 4,096 to 3,966 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
20104,096
20203,966-130 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

In the county-history sources

27 words on this township

History of Washington County and the St. Croix Valley Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Grant City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Grant City - 27 words.

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Grant between 2000 and 2018, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
14 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2018Natural4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning2.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2008Natural4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Grant: 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
Pete Miller's Highway 94 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
November 2012Thunderstorm WindGrant$5,000There were isolated trees, large branches and power lines down from the northeastern corner of Grant into the southern part of May Township near Big Carnelian Lake (about six miles north of Stillwater). The wind also peeled heavy gauge steel off of a barn roof and took the large doors off. The south end up of a farm shop was lifted up a few inches, pushing the west wall out and displacing the roof. Power poles were down as well.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Duluth Junction0.8 miles21
Mahtomedi2.4 miles21
Withrow2.8 miles21
Willernie3.2 miles21
Dellwood3.3 miles21
Birchwood3.8 miles21
Pine Springs4.1 miles21
Carnelian Junction5.1 miles22

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 GrantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1987755The 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 1777317. 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.