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Randall, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Randall City. It lies in ZIP code area 56475. It stands on South Branch Little Elk River. The Survey maps it on the Randall West quadrangle. 607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Randall within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Randall fell from 650 to 607 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
2010650
2020607-43 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Randall between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,377 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 39 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use23
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Smoking2
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
6 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Randall: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Gorman MineIronPast Producer1951
Gorman MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randall in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2022Flash FloodRandall$1,530,000Nearly 30 homes were evacuated in the town of Randall due to flood waters spilling over the banks of the Little Elk River. Numerous roads and bridges were also damaged. The heaviest rainfall occurred before 4 am, but flood waters developed during the morning. Damage totals were provided by Morrison County Emergency Management.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRandall-A few trees were down, including one on a power line.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRandall-Power lines were downed in Darling Township.
August 2004HailRandall-The hail swath that began in Browerville in Todd County continued eastward into Morrison County. It was located as far east as 4 miles southwest of Randall, but may have continued beyond this location.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRandall-The last in a series of downbursts tore across southwestern Morrison County. The NWS damage survey determined that although this storm produced a two mile long tornado in Morrison County from 1515 to 1520, the vast majority of the damage was due to a 12 mile long, 4 mile wide downburst. Many hundreds of trees were downed, oriented from northeast to southwest. The downburst also hit Flensburg and Sobieski, both of which saw minor house and outbuilding damage.
July 2003HailRandall-The same storm that produced a tornado 7 SW Philbrook as well as downburst damage from 3 S Staples to 2 SE Lincoln also produced large hail that fell in the Randall area. Many fields of corn and beans were decimated.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindRandall-Roof partially off pole barn.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindRandall-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindRandall-Power lines and trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2017HailRandall-no account filed
June 2015HailRandall-no account filed
September 2005HailRandall-no account filed
July 2003HailRandall-no account filed
June 1999HailRandall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Cushing5.1 miles12
Camp Ripley Junction9.4 miles13
Flensburg9.5 miles12
Belle Prairie9.6 miles13
Maple Leaf Court10.1 miles12
Little Falls10.9 miles12
Lincoln11.0 miles12
Sobieski11.7 miles12

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 RandallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229315The 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 655054. 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.