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Grasston, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Grasston City. It lies in ZIP code area 55030. The Survey maps it on the Grasston quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Grasston within Kanabec County

Population over time

2 figures

Grasston fell from 158 to 154 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
2010158
2020154-4 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Grasston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,510 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2003Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kanabec 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 Grasston: 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
Braham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kanabec County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grasston in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
July 2018Heavy RainGrasston-A measured rainfall report of 6.48 inches fell near Grasston in 24 hours.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGrasston-At least 6 trees downed four miles North of Braham.
June 2001Tornado (F1)Grasston-Isanti county tornado exited Isanti County at Braham and continued for another quarter of a mile into Kanabec county. It dissipated 1/4 mile NE of Braham, or 4 miles south of Grasston. As per NWS damage survey. No damage reported in Kanabec county.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGrasston-Downburst winds associated with heavy showers/thunderstorms destroyed mobile home and one shed. Other sheds also damaged.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindGrasston-Sheds destroyed. Storage building at Bremix Concrete destroyed. Power poles and trees blown down. Portion of roof ripped off farmhouse. Estimated windspeed.
June 2013HailGrasston-no account filed
June 2013HailGrasston-no account filed
June 2013HailGrasston-no account filed
June 2013HailGrasston-no account filed
June 2009HailGrasston-no account filed
April 2004HailGrasston-no account filed
June 2001HailGrasston-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudGrasston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kanabec 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
Grass Lake1.5 miles13
Brunswick6.7 miles11
Quamba8.4 miles12
Coin9.3 miles12
Mora9.5 miles11
Lewis Lake11.8 miles11
Ogilvie14.9 miles10
Kroschel19.5 miles6

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 GrasstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q941037The 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 644388. 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.