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Isanti, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Isanti City. It lies in ZIP code area 55040. It stands on Isanti Brook. The Survey maps it on the Isanti quadrangle. 6,804 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Isanti within Isanti County

On record in Isanti

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Isanti grew from 5,251 to 6,804 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
20105,251
20206,804+1,553 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Isanti between 1992 and 2020, burning about 566 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Isanti in 48 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 25 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
July 1997Flash FloodIsanti$100,000Estimate of four inches of rain in less than one hour. Major damage to wastewater treatment facility under construction.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindIsanti$10,000Numerous reports of downed trees and power lines across southern Isanti County between Highway 47 and 65, north of 245 Street.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 65 mph downed a large tree across driveway.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Delayed report of multiple large trees down throughout Isanti, time estimated from radar.
August 2024Tornado (EF1)Isanti-A tornado developed in Anoka County and moved through portions of Oak Grove, St Francis, and East Bethel before crossing into Isanti County. In Isanti County, twofarm outbuildings weredestroyed and a pole barnsustained roof damage. Hundreds of trees were also broken or uprooted.
May 2022HailIsanti-There was a social media picture of 1.5 inch hail.
May 2022HailIsanti-There was a social media picture of golf ball size hail.
July 2020HailIsanti-There was a lot of smaller hail, but a few hail stones were as large as half dollar size.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Several trees were blown down in the city of Isanti.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Several large tree limbs were blown down near Isanti, Minnesota.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Several large trees were blown down south of Isanti.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Multiple trees were blown down near Isanti.
August 2009Heavy RainIsanti-A local observer measured 3.50 inches of rainfall in the past 12 hours.
August 2009Heavy RainIsanti-A local observer measured 3.50 inches of rainfall in the past 12 hours.
May 2008HailIsanti-Occurred at County road 5 and Whiskey.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Twenty inch diameter tree down across road.
June 2007HailIsanti-Occurred at the intersection of Highway 65 and County Road 5.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Oak tree blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Tree toppled over road. Many 3 inch tree limbs down.
July 2006HailIsanti-Numerous small branches felled.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIsanti-A tree was downed across County Road 7 about one mile north of County Road 5 just north of Spencer Brook.
June 2005HailIsanti-Dime sized hail was reported at Big Lake. The time was estimated.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Power lines were downed.
June 2002Tornado (F1)Isanti-Barn roof off, hundreds of trees toppled, few sheds down.
June 2002Flash FloodIsanti-Four inches of rain in less than two hours resulted in water two to three feet deep in the city of Isanti.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Trees down at County Roads 12 and 45.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Estimated winds, trees down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Trees blown down. Gusts to 50 mph also reported in Cambridge.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Trees down. Also trees reported down at Cambridge state hospital.
May 2025HailIsanti-no account filed
August 2023HailIsanti-no account filed
May 2022HailIsanti-no account filed
September 2013HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2011HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2011HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudIsanti-no account filed
May 2008HailIsanti-no account filed
May 2008HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2007HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2007HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2007HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2006HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2005HailIsanti-no account filed
April 2004HailIsanti-no account filed
August 2004HailIsanti-no account filed
April 2002HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2002HailIsanti-no account filed
June 1998HailIsanti-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Isanti Estates2.6 miles12
Bodum3.2 miles11
Edgewood3.3 miles11
East Lake Francis Shores4.1 miles12
West Lake Francis Shores4.9 miles12
Blomford5.6 miles11
Cambridge5.8 miles11
Minnesota Boys Town5.9 miles11

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 IsantiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924167The 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 645470. 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.