Hampton, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55031. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle. 744 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHampton grew from 689 to 744 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 | 689 | |
| 2020 | 744 | +55 (+8%) |
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 Farmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hampton in 2000, burning about 80 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 October 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hampton in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampton | $10,000 | A large tree was uprooted near Hampton. The tree caused roof damage. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampton | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Highway 47 and 52 near Hampton, Minnesota. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Hampton | $5,000 | Highway 50, especially near the junction of Highway 50 and 52 around Hampton, had significant road damage, with erosion to the shoulder. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Hampton | - | Deputy reported golf ball size hail near Hampton. Time estimated by radar. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Hampton | - | A measured rainfall report of 5.56 inches fell in less than 3 hours near Hampton. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Hampton | - | An observer measured 3.29 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hampton | - | Hail occurred in Empire. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampton | - | Numerous large trees toppled in the city of Hampton. Two to three miles East of hampton along Highway 50, several large trees downed over Highway 50. Power lines also felled, along with an automobile either blown off or driven off the road into farm field along this same area. |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Hampton | - | Spotters reported a funnel cloud near Highway 52 via HAM radio. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampton | - | A few trees were downed across the intersection of County Road 47 and 260th Street. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampton | - | Numerous trees down. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Hampton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Hampton | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Hampton | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hampton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empire | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| New Trier | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Vermillion | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Randolph | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Coates | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Farmington | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Castle Rock | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rich Valley | 9.6 miles | 13 |
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 Hampton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1000082 | 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 644612. 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.






