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Maple Plain, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Maple Plain City. It lies in ZIP code area 55359. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle. 1,743 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Maple Plain within Hennepin County

Population over time

2 figures

Maple Plain fell from 1,768 to 1,743 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
20101,768
20201,743-25 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Maple Plain between 1999 and 2017, burning about 182 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2015Debris and open burning50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 November 2012Debris and open burning77 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 November 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple Plain in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindMaple Plain3 hurtThree young girls injured at YMCA camp when tree blown over onto tent. Barn also blown down in vicinity. Estimated windspeed.
September 2005Tornado (F1)Maple Plain1 hurtA 30 yard wide tornado touched down in Independence near the intersection of county roads 11 and 90, then crossed Lake Sarah. Around the lake numerous boats and docks were damaged. On the southern edge of the lake a home sustained structural damage and an attached garage was destroyed along Woodhill Lane. Several 2 to 3 foot diameter trees and power lines were downed nearby. On the northern edge of the lake a small airplane hangar was blown away and hundreds of 1 to 2 foot diameter trees were knocked down along Lake Sarah Heights Drive and Sunset Lane. A tractor trailer was blown over on its side in the same neighborhood. Next the tornado moved northeast into extreme southeast Greenfield where it damaged ten homes in the Country Circle area just north of Highway 55. Two homes suffered significant damage including one home that had damage to exterior walls on the second story and another home that lost an attached garage. One man inside a damaged home was cut on the nose by flying glass. Finally the tornado moved into southwest Corcoran where it destroyed a barn near the intersection of County Road 19 and Pioneer Trail. On the same property a three-season porch, chimney, heated 4-stall garage, fences, and two ice fishing houses were also lost. The tornado lifted nearby after being on the ground for 3 miles.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMaple Plain-A couple of large tree limbs were snapped off.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMaple Plain-Dozens of trees were blown down in Maple Plain. Some landed on houses and vehicles, while others fell across roads.
June 2013Heavy RainMaple Plain-A recorded rainfall amount of 2.20 inches fell in 30 minutes near Maple Plain.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMaple Plain-Numerous trees, 10 to 15 inches in diameter were blown down in Baker Park.
June 2010HailMaple Plain-Several areas around Maple Plain, Minnesota, had up to quarter size hail for a few minutes.
July 2007HailMaple Plain-Occurred on mile South of Highway 12 and County Road 83.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMaple Plain-Tree down across road at intersection of County roads 11 and 92.
June 2001Funnel CloudMaple Plain-Reported in the northwestern corner of Independence.
June 2001HailMaple Plain-Three distinct bursts of hail which turned the ground white.
June 2001Funnel CloudMaple Plain-Funnel was reported to be close to the ground, but debris was not observed.
August 2019HailMaple Plain-no account filed
August 2013HailMaple Plain-no account filed
May 2012HailMaple Plain-no account filed
July 2007HailMaple Plain-no account filed
September 2007HailMaple Plain-no account filed
August 2007HailMaple Plain-no account filed
July 2006HailMaple Plain-no account filed
September 2005HailMaple Plain-no account filed
September 2005HailMaple Plain-no account filed
June 2002HailMaple Plain-no account filed
May 1999Funnel CloudMaple Plain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Armstrong1.7 miles15
Independence3.0 miles15
Stubbs Bay3.1 miles20
Loretto3.4 miles15
Orono3.7 miles20
Saga Hill3.7 miles18
Medina4.3 miles15
Lyndale4.4 miles18

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 Maple PlainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228155The 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 647497. 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.