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.
Population over time
2 figuresOak 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,031 | |
| 2020 | 8,929 | +898 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1916 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1919 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Cedar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
179 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Tornado (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 2024 | Heavy Rain | Oak Grove | - | The storm total was 1.61 inches of rainfall. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Oak Grove | - | There was a social media picture of 1.25 inch hail. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | There were a few trees uprooted north of Oak Grove. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | A few trees were blown down south of Oak Grove. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Oak Grove | - | There was a social media picture of 1.5 inch hail. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | A large tree and several large tree branches were blown down around Oak Grove. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Several eight inch diameter trees were snapped off on Viking Blvd near Oak Grove, Minnesota. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Oak 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | A few trees were downed. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Scattered trees and power lines down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Trees down, minor structural damage. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Oak Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Oak Grove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Francis | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Woodlyn Court | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Bethel | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Soderville | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Constance | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Coopers Corner | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| East Bethel | 6.8 miles | 13 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1916839 | 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 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.









