Grygla, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Grygla City. It lies in ZIP code area 56727. The Survey maps it on the Grygla quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrygla fell from 221 to 180 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 | 221 | |
| 2020 | 180 | -41 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1919 USGS Liner quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Grygla quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Grygla quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
107 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Grygla between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,582 acres in total. None started naturally. 73 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 73 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 99 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 130 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grygla in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | $15,000 | Power lines were downed in the strong wind. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | $10,000 | Many trees were blown down in the strong wind, one landing on top of a house. A trailer home was moved off its foundation. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Grygla | $2,000 | Street flooding was reported in Grygla. County roads, yards, and fields were also flooded along the Mud River. Several homes were completely surrounded by water. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | $2,000 | Trees were blown down by the strong wind. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | $1,000 | Large trees were blown down. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Grygla | $100 | Public reports full ditches and low areas after 4-6 inches of rainfall, with a report of prior flowing water. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | - | Measured wind gust. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Grygla | - | The hail fell near the campground and golf course. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Grygla | - | The hail ranged from pea to quarter size. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Grygla | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with brief heavy rain. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Grygla | - | The ground was covered with dime to quarter sized hail. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | - | An 8 inch diameter tree was knocked down. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Grygla | - | The hail fell along the county line. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Grygla | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Grygla | - | 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.
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 Grygla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q616821 | 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 644516. 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.





