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Oak Grove, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Oak Grove City. It lies in ZIP code area 55011. The Survey maps it on the Cedar quadrangle. 8,929 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Anoka County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Grove grew from 8,031 to 8,929 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
20108,031
20208,929+898 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 734 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use18
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Tornado (EF1)Oak Grove-A tornado developed in the northeast corner of Oak Grove, tracked across the southeastern part of St Francis, then into East Bethel. The tornado continued northeast into Isanti County. In Anoka County, hundreds of trees were broken or uprooted, some of which landed on houses, sheds, and vehicles. Part of a roof was blown off a machine shed at a farm.
June 2024Heavy RainOak Grove-The storm total was 1.61 inches of rainfall.
May 2022HailOak Grove-There was a social media picture of 1.25 inch hail.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-There were a few trees uprooted north of Oak Grove.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-A few trees were blown down south of Oak Grove.
May 2022HailOak Grove-There was a social media picture of 1.5 inch hail.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-A large tree and several large tree branches were blown down around Oak Grove.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Scattered trees and power lines were blown down across the northern half of Anoka County between Oak Grove and East Bethel. An individual video-recorded a severe downburst in East Bethel, where numerous large tree branches and a few trees were snapped off or blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Several eight inch diameter trees were snapped off on Viking Blvd near Oak Grove, Minnesota.
July 2009HailOak Grove-Several trained spotters reported quarter to golf ball size hail from the west side of Oak Grove, to the southeast side of the town.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Three to four foot diameter tree felled and blocked Nightingale St. in East Bethel. Also, numerous other trees down at the intersection of Nightingale and 202nd, and Nightingale and Simms road.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-A few trees were downed.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Scattered trees and power lines down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Trees down, minor structural damage.
August 2023HailOak Grove-no account filed
August 2023HailOak Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Cedar2.6 miles16
Saint Francis3.6 miles15
Woodlyn Court4.8 miles15
Bethel5.4 miles15
Soderville6.1 miles13
Constance6.3 miles16
Coopers Corner6.3 miles12
East Bethel6.8 miles13

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 Oak GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1916839The 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 1669536. 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.