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Hilltop, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Columbia Heights City. It lies in ZIP code area 55421. The Survey maps it on the New Brighton quadrangle. 958 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Hilltop within Anoka County

Population over time

2 figures

Hilltop grew from 744 to 958 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
2010744
2020958+214 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Hilltop between 1998 and 2019, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2000Smoking1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hilltop: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone

Every working recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilltop in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2007: 4 hail, 1 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 2007HailHilltop-Hail fell in Columbia Heights, near Keyes Park.
June 2006Heavy RainHilltop-Ponding of water occurred at numerous intersections and low lying spots of extreme southern Anoka County, including Columbia Heights and Hilltop. Three to four inches of rain was common.
June 2005HailHilltop-no account filed
July 2002HailHilltop-no account filed
August 2002HailHilltop-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Columbia Heights1.2 miles21
Fridley2.4 miles21
Spring Lake Park3.8 miles22
Coon Rapids5.1 miles21
Coon Creek7.4 miles20
Blaine7.4 miles19
Lexington7.6 miles19
Oak Park8.0 miles20

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 HilltopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230839The 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 645019. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.