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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.

Hampton within Dakota County

Population over time

2 figures

Hampton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010689
2020744+55 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
19 October 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000A large tree was uprooted near Hampton. The tree caused roof damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Highway 47 and 52 near Hampton, Minnesota.
August 2014Flash FloodHampton$5,000Highway 50, especially near the junction of Highway 50 and 52 around Hampton, had significant road damage, with erosion to the shoulder.
July 2023HailHampton-Deputy reported golf ball size hail near Hampton. Time estimated by radar.
August 2014Heavy RainHampton-A measured rainfall report of 5.56 inches fell in less than 3 hours near Hampton.
June 2012Heavy RainHampton-An observer measured 3.29 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours.
May 2008HailHampton-Hail occurred in Empire.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHampton-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 2005Funnel CloudHampton-Spotters reported a funnel cloud near Highway 52 via HAM radio.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHampton-A few trees were downed across the intersection of County Road 47 and 260th Street.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHampton-Numerous trees down.
June 2014Funnel CloudHampton-no account filed
June 2011Funnel CloudHampton-no account filed
March 2007Funnel CloudHampton-no account filed
April 2004HailHampton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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
Empire3.4 miles13
New Trier3.7 miles11
Vermillion4.7 miles12
Randolph5.9 miles11
Coates7.6 miles13
Farmington7.8 miles12
Castle Rock9.2 miles11
Rich Valley9.6 miles13

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 HamptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000082The 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.