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Mendota Heights, Minnesota

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mendota Heights City. It lies in ZIP code area 55118. It stands on Minnesota River. The Survey maps it on the Saint Paul West quadrangle. 11,744 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Mendota Heights within Dakota County

On record in Mendota Heights

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

Mendota Heights grew from 11,071 to 11,744 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
201011,071
202011,744+673 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 28 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Mendota Heights between 1999 and 2011, burning about 228 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
20 July 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeLML
8 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeKELLY TRAIL
16 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesYANKEE DOODLE
14 April 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mendota Heights: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. 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
Twin City Brick Co. Clay PitKaolinProducerKaolinite
Dakota County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Twin City Brick Co PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dakota 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
Mendota1.4 miles28
Sunfish Lake2.3 miles28
Lilydale2.3 miles28
West Saint Paul3.0 miles28
Wescott4.7 miles28
South Saint Paul5.5 miles28
Inver Grove Heights5.6 miles28
Eagan5.7 miles30

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 Mendota HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1992845The 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 647763. 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.