Hamburg, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hamburg City. It lies in ZIP code area 55339. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle. 566 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.
On record in Hamburg
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 2 records
Jacob Hebeisen Hardware Storelisted 1980- Jacob Hebeisen Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresHamburg grew from 513 to 566 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 | 513 | |
| 2020 | 566 | +53 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Belle Plaine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg between 2000 and 2016, burning about 313 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | MUD LAKE |
| 9 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | MUD LK 2 |
| 9 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | MUD LK. 3 |
| 24 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | MUD1 |
| 19 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | REDHEAD |
| 14 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | REDHEAD |
| 15 December 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | MUD LAKE 2 |
| 20 October 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | BENTON TOWNSHIP FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 | Hamburg | - | County dispatch reported trees down in Norwood Young America. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Delayed report, time estimated from radar. Trees and powerlines down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | A measured wind gust of 59 knots was reported by a private weather station near Hamburg. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | Hamburg | - | A local observer measured 3.25 inches in the last 24 hours. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Hamburg | - | An observer measured 4.26 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Hamburg | - | A local COOP Observer recorded 5.43 inches of rainfall in a six hour period. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Six inch diameter branches downed. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Trees were downed in Hamburg. Trees and a power line were downed in Norwood-Young America. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Trees and power poles felled. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Trees down. Damage to houses. Estimated windspeed. |
| August 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Hamburg | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Hamburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwood (historical) | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Faxon Court | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Norwood Young America | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Young America (historical) | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Bongards | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hydes Lake | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Gotha | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Cologne | 10.2 miles | 12 |
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 Hamburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1005682 | 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 644598. 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.






