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.
Population over time
2 figuresOslo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 330 | |
| 2020 | 239 | -91 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Oslo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201811 |
| 4 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Oslo | $100,000 | The 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oslo | $500 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oslo | - | Report of tree damage around town in Oslo. Time estimated from radar. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Oslo | - | Oslo - Crest of 36.27 feet occurred on 4/24. |
| May 2023 | Flood | Oslo | - | Oslo - Crest of 36.27 feet occurred on 4/24. Flooding began in April. (Crest noted in April Storm Data). |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oslo | - | 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oslo | - | Several three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down in a farmyard. |
| June 2012 | Tornado (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 2005 | Hail | Oslo | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Oslo | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Oslo | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Oslo | - | 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.
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 Oslo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q888491 | 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 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.





