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Meadowlands, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Meadowlands Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55765. It stands on Little Whiteface River. The Survey maps it on the Meadowlands quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

Meadowlands within St. Louis County

On record in Meadowlands

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Meadowlands grew from 134 to 134 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
2010134
20201340 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Meadowlands between 1993 and 2018, burning about 109 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Smoking1
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2003Debris and open burning1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2006Natural5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Smoking1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadowlands in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMeadowlands-Numerous poplar tree tops were snapped.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMeadowlands-Multiple trees were downed during the storm along Highway 29 at the St. Louis River near Floodwood. The trees ranged from 6 to 12 inches in diameter with one 12 inch red pine tree completely uprooted.
June 2016HailMeadowlands-Most of the hail was dime-sized, but there were some hail stones up to the size of quarters. The wind gusts were estimated to 40 mph.
June 2016HailMeadowlands-There were hail stones as large as a half dollar among some the size of quarters.
July 2008HailMeadowlands-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Elmer3.2 miles8
Payne7.2 miles10
Toivola7.8 miles8
Birch7.9 miles10
Prosit7.9 miles7
Dumblane8.1 miles9
Maney8.7 miles7
Baden8.7 miles10

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 MeadowlandsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2080330The 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 661897. 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.