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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.

Grygla within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Grygla 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.

YearPeople Change
2010221
2020180-41 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

107 since 1993

Regional 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/incendiarism73
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use80 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined99 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2017Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use130 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrygla$15,000Power lines were downed in the strong wind.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGrygla$10,000Many trees were blown down in the strong wind, one landing on top of a house. A trailer home was moved off its foundation.
July 2001Flash FloodGrygla$2,000Street 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 2001Thunderstorm WindGrygla$2,000Trees were blown down by the strong wind.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGrygla$1,000Large trees were blown down.
July 2024Flash FloodGrygla$100Public reports full ditches and low areas after 4-6 inches of rainfall, with a report of prior flowing water.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGrygla-Measured wind gust.
August 2020HailGrygla-The hail fell near the campground and golf course.
July 2017HailGrygla-The hail ranged from pea to quarter size.
August 2015HailGrygla-Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with brief heavy rain.
April 2010HailGrygla-The ground was covered with dime to quarter sized hail.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGrygla-An 8 inch diameter tree was knocked down.
July 2001HailGrygla-The hail fell along the county line.
June 2022HailGrygla-no account filed
June 2007HailGrygla-no account filed
September 2006HailGrygla-no account filed
August 2006HailGrygla-no account filed
September 2003HailGrygla-no account filed
May 2002HailGrygla-no account filed
July 2001HailGrygla-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGrygla-no account filed
June 1999HailGrygla-no account filed
July 1999HailGrygla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Espelie6.3 miles6
Gatzke12.2 miles9
Middle River30.4 miles9
Holt30.4 miles9
Rosewood36.4 miles10
Newfolden37.9 miles10
Viking42.1 miles10
Ellerth45.7 miles10

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 GryglaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q616821The 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.