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Oak Park Heights, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oak Park Heights City. It lies in ZIP code area 55082. The Survey maps it on the Stillwater quadrangle. 4,849 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Oak Park Heights within Washington County

On record in Oak Park 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Park Heights grew from 4,339 to 4,849 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
20104,339
20204,849+510 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oak Park Heights between 2000 and 2020, burning about 29 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSaint Croix National Scenic RiverHECKOFADAY
8 May 2017Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020157
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources46
19 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use17 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 October 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20337
13 October 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Oak Park Heights: 10 occurrences, 7 producers, 5 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bryan Smith Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Moelter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Moelter Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Houlton Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Houlton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Hudson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Hudson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pete Miller Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pete Miller Pit and Mill No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park Heights in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Park Heights-Trees and power lines downed in Oak Park Heights.
May 2022HailOak Park Heights-no account filed
May 2015HailOak Park Heights-no account filed
June 2012HailOak Park Heights-no account filed
June 2012HailOak Park Heights-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Bayport0.9 miles22
Siegel1.3 miles22
Stillwater1.9 miles22
Lake Elmo5.2 miles17
Lakeland5.4 miles18
Lakeland Shores6.0 miles18
Duluth Junction6.5 miles21
Arcola6.5 miles22

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 Park HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228020The 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 648850. 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.

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.