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.
Population over time
2 figuresRandall 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 650 | |
| 2020 | 607 | -43 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1948 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Cushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Randall West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
125 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gorman Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1951 | |
| Gorman Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Randall | $1,530,000 | Nearly 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randall | - | A few trees were down, including one on a power line. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randall | - | Power lines were downed in Darling Township. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Randall | - | 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randall | - | 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 2003 | Hail | Randall | - | 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randall | - | Roof partially off pole barn. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randall | - | Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Randall | - | Power lines and trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Randall | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Randall | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Randall | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Randall | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Randall | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cushing | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Camp Ripley Junction | 9.4 miles | 13 | |
| Flensburg | 9.5 miles | 12 | |
| Belle Prairie | 9.6 miles | 13 | |
| Maple Leaf Court | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Little Falls | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Lincoln | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Sobieski | 11.7 miles | 12 |
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 Randall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229315 | 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 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.







