Grey Eagle, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grey Eagle City. It lies in ZIP code area 56336. The Survey maps it on the Burtrum quadrangle. 330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.
On record in Grey Eagle
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Grey Eagle Village Halllisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresGrey Eagle fell from 348 to 330 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 | 348 | |
| 2020 | 330 | -18 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1950 USGS Swanville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Burtrum quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
44 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Grey Eagle between 1992 and 2018, burning about 395 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 June 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 June 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grey Eagle in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | Video on social media showing full size pine trees snapped in half. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Grey Eagle | - | Photo measurement provided via social media. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | Photos shared via social media of large tree uprooted. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | Trees down near Buckhead Lake. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | A two mile long swath of tree damage occurred near Grey Eagle. Several of the trees were blocking roads. Power was out in Grey Eagle. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | Estimated Winds, large branches down. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | Trees blown down. Several roofs blown off. Estimated windspeed. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | 12 large trees blown down. Trailer homes damaged. Docks destroyed. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grey Eagle | - | Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Grey Eagle | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Grey Eagle | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Grey Eagle | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Grey Eagle | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Grey Eagle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasant Beach | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Ward Springs | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Burtrum | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Spaulding | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pillsbury | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Round Prairie | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Little Sauk | 9.5 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 Grey Eagle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1005688 | 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 644480. 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.





