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Oslo, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oslo City. It lies in ZIP code area 56744. The Survey maps it on the Oslo quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Oslo within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Oslo fell from 330 to 239 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
2010330
2020239-91 (-28%)

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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oslo between 2004 and 2018, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201811
4 April 2004Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oslo in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flood. 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 1999Tornado (F2)Oslo$100,000The tornado lifted the roof off a warehouse, depositing it nearly 2 miles away to the southeast. A 6-ton truck was also pushed nearly 150 yards.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOslo$500Trees were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindOslo-Report of tree damage around town in Oslo. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023FloodOslo-Oslo - Crest of 36.27 feet occurred on 4/24.
May 2023FloodOslo-Oslo - Crest of 36.27 feet occurred on 4/24. Flooding began in April. (Crest noted in April Storm Data).
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOslo-Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in Oslo and across southern Oak Park Township. Wind driven hail stripped several fields bare along and south of highway 1.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindOslo-Several three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down in a farmyard.
June 2012Tornado (EF1)Oslo-This tornado snapped several trees and tree limbs while scattering branches from at least three shelterbelts along its path. Shingles were torn from farm buildings. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
September 2005HailOslo-no account filed
July 1999HailOslo-no account filed
July 1999HailOslo-no account filed
July 1999HailOslo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Alvarado7.2 miles10
Big Woods8.1 miles9
March12.4 miles10
Luna18.4 miles11
Argyle19.0 miles11
Warren19.0 miles10
Stephen22.3 miles11
Valley Court22.3 miles11

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 OsloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q888491The 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 649021. 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.