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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.

Greenbush within Roseau County

Population over time

2 figures

Greenbush 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.

YearPeople Change
2010719
2020682-37 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

52 since 1994

Regional 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
25 September 1996Debris and open burning12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1996Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2018Debris and open burning2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

47 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Tornado (F2)Greenbush1 hurt, $250,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$700,000Numerous 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 2001Flash FloodGreenbush$200,000Water washed out county road 7.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$1,000Large branches were blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$500no account filed
June 2022HailGreenbush-A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail that gradually became pea sized.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-Numerous tree branches were blown down across town. A few pine, poplar, and oak trees were also snapped.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-Considerable tree damage was reported in town.
July 2018HailGreenbush-The hail fell along highway 11.
June 2007Tornado (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 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-A 10 inch diameter tree branch fell on a house roof.
June 2005Flash FloodGreenbush-Fields and farm access roads were flooded along lateral ditch number two near the Rosea/Kittson county border.
July 2005Tornado (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 2005HailGreenbush-Penny to nickel sized hail fell.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 1994Tornado (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 2020HailGreenbush-no account filed
September 2014HailGreenbush-no account filed
September 2014HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2012HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2012Funnel CloudGreenbush-no account filed
July 2012HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2012HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2008HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-no account filed
June 2006HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 2005HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2005HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2005HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 2003HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 2003HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 2003HailGreenbush-no account filed
August 2003HailGreenbush-no account filed
August 2003HailGreenbush-no account filed
August 2003HailGreenbush-no account filed
May 2002HailGreenbush-no account filed
May 2002HailGreenbush-no account filed
May 2002HailGreenbush-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-no account filed
July 2002HailGreenbush-no account filed
May 2000HailGreenbush-no account filed
August 2000HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 1999HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 1999HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 1999HailGreenbush-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Greenbush-no account filed
June 1997HailGreenbush-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Leo5.5 miles12
Haug8.2 miles9
Strathcona10.1 miles10
Badger10.5 miles9
Fox17.8 miles9
Ross19.8 miles8
Oak Point (historical)22.0 miles11
Noacres (historical)22.2 miles12

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 GreenbushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q746907The 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.