Greenbush, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greenbush City. It lies in ZIP code area 56726. The Survey maps it on the Greenbush quadrangle. 682 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGreenbush fell from 719 to 682 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 719 | |
| 2020 | 682 | -37 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Greenbush quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Greenbush quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
52 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Greenbush between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,464 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
47 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenbush in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 30 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Greenbush | 1 hurt, $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | $700,000 | Numerous large tree limbs were broken down around Greenbush. Trees were blown down on cars and roofs of homes. Power lines were also downed. Large commercial scale steel grain bins were dented or collapsed inward at the elevator complex. Smaller farm scale steel bins nearby were torn from their foundations and rolled. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Greenbush | $200,000 | Water washed out county road 7. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | $1,000 | Large branches were blown down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Greenbush | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail that gradually became pea sized. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | - | Numerous tree branches were blown down across town. A few pine, poplar, and oak trees were also snapped. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | - | Considerable tree damage was reported in town. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Greenbush | - | The hail fell along highway 11. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Greenbush | - | Power poles and lines were downed and several trees were snapped off along this route. The damage indicated peak winds of 90 to 95 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | - | A 10 inch diameter tree branch fell on a house roof. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Greenbush | - | Fields and farm access roads were flooded along lateral ditch number two near the Rosea/Kittson county border. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Greenbush | - | The tornado tracked from 5 miles northwest of Haug to 5 miles north-northwest of Haug. Many large trees were snapped off or uprooted in a wildlife area. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Greenbush | - | Penny to nickel sized hail fell. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Greenbush | - | A tornado touched down briefly east of Greenbush. Apparently there no path of damage. It touched down in a field and went back up into the cloud. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Greenbush | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Haug | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Strathcona | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Badger | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fox | 17.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ross | 19.8 miles | 8 | |
| Oak Point (historical) | 22.0 miles | 11 | |
| Noacres (historical) | 22.2 miles | 12 |
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 Greenbush | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q746907 | The 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 644432. 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.
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.






