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Greenfield, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Greenfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 55357. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle. 2,903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Greenfield within Hennepin County

Population over time

3 figures

Greenfield grew from 215 to 2,903 between 1860 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
1860215
20102,777
20202,903+126 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield between 2000 and 2015, burning about 157 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2015Debris and open burning50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance87 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE SARAH
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance3.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 October 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield: 2 producers. 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
Bursch Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Giese Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 tornado, 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
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Greenfield$1,000A weak tornado moved across a farmstead, knocking down large branches, flattening a corn field, and blowing out a door of a hoop barn. The tornado was caught on video by a storm chaser.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-About one dozen trees and large branches were knocked down, all blown from east to west.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Greenfield-A house was damaged and an attached garage was destroyed along 76th Lane.
June 2003HailGreenfield-no account filed
June 2002HailGreenfield-no account filed

Every storm 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
Lake Sarah2.2 miles15
Burschville3.3 miles15
Loretto4.5 miles15
Leighton4.6 miles15
Dupont4.9 miles15
Independence5.5 miles15
Armstrong6.3 miles15
Maple Plain6.9 miles15

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 GreenfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924328The 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 1669530. 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.