Little Canada, Minnesota
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Little Canada City. It lies in ZIP code area 55117. The Survey maps it on the White Bear Lake West quadrangle. 10,819 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLittle Canada grew from 9,773 to 10,819 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 | 9,773 | |
| 2020 | 10,819 | +1,046 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1902 USGS White Bear quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS New Brighton quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS White Bear Lake West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Little Canada between 1994 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge | FORKS FIRE |
| 7 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | RED ARROW |
| 23 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | OAK CREST |
| 23 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | SAND DUNES |
| 4 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Canada in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Canada | $30,000 | Several trees were blown down in the Little Canada area. One landed on a mobile home. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Little Canada | - | The hail was up to five inches deep. Winds gusted up to 50 mph before the hail started. It was measured by a handheld anemometer. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Canada | - | A measured wind gust from a hand held anemometer. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Little Canada | - | A measured rainfall total of 5.50 inches fell in less than 4 hours. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Little Canada | - | Six inches of flowing water occurred at the intersection of County Road C2 and Marion Street. Rainfall reports from several observers in Ramsey County had between three and five inches between 8 and 11 pm. One observer reported 4 inches of rainfall in less than two hours. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Little Canada | - | Reported at the intersection of Larpenteur and Edgeton. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Canada | - | Trees were downed. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Canada | - | Damage survey showed that an intense downburst-producing mesocyclone moved southeast from Little Canada (near Interstates 694 and 35E) to the east side of St. Paul (the Beaver Lake area). Thousands of trees were down as well as numerous power lines. Many trees came down on houses and vehicles. An unconfirmed funnel cloud was reported just south of Lake Phalen, but there was no indication of any tornado touchdown according to the damage survey. Interestingly, the vast majority of the downed trees were oriented from southeast to northwest, even though the mesocyclone was moving to the southeast. It is possible (but uncertain) that this mesocyclone was the same one that hit Blaine and Circle Pines of Anoka County (see entry). |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Canada | - | Estimated winds, trees felled. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Little Canada | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Little Canada | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardigan Junction | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Vadnais Heights | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Gloster | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Gladstone | 3.0 miles | 28 | |
| Hoffmans Corner | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Gem Lake | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Roseville | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Arden Hills | 4.0 miles | 22 |
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 Little Canada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926987 | 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 646773. 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.










