Greenwald, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56352. The Survey maps it on the Greenwald quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGreenwald fell from 222 to 197 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 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 197 | -25 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greenwald quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
294 words on this townshipHistory of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Grove Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Meire Grove is a village of some two hundred inhabitants located in Grove township. Its history appears more fully in this volume in the biographies of the pioneers who settled in this vicinity. The railroad point is Greenwald on the "Soo" line. Meire Grove has a Catholic church, a hotel, a creamery, and a brick yard. The postoffice is now discontinued, and mail is received by rural route.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Greenwald between 2000 and 2007, burning about 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 October 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 January 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenwald: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwald in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenwald | $1,000,000 | Hundreds of trees, possibly over one thousand, were blown down across a broadening swath from northeast of Elrosa to Melrose. Numerous corn fields and other crops were also damaged. A storm survey determined this was due to downburst winds associated with a dissipating tornado and then downstream from the dissipated tornado. A building that was under construction was completely blown apart, and a commercial building lost part of its roof. Other sheds and outbuildings at farms also had some damage. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Greenwald | - | Quarter sized hail was photographed by the public. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Greenwald | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meire Grove | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Elrosa | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Hill | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Melrose | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| New Munich | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Freeport | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lake Henry | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Padua | 10.5 miles | 8 |
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 Greenwald | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231723 | 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 644452. 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.




