Richmond, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richmond City. It lies in ZIP code area 56368. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle. 1,475 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRichmond grew from 1,422 to 1,475 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 | 1,422 | |
| 2020 | 1,475 | +53 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
60 words on this townshipHistory of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Richmond City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Richmond City - 60 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Richmond in 2006, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 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
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Richmond: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Spring Crushing Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gertkin Marl Pits | Limestone, General | Producer | Marl | |
| Opalescent Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Richmond Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sauk River Area Clays | Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmond in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 18 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down around Richmond. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Richmond | - | There were several reports of penny to quarter size hail from west of Richmond, to east of Richmond. The largest hail stone was 1.25 inches in diameter northwest of the city. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | Several power lines were blown down in Richmond. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | A few trees were uprooted near Richmond. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | An eight inch diameter tree was uprooted. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | Numerous trees down. Light poles down. Sheds blown down. A boat and a dock were blown across Highway 23. Overturned pontoons in Richmond Marine. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Richmond | - | Dime sized hail was reported 1 mile east of Eden Valley. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Richmond | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Richmond | - | Penny sized hail fell just east of Eden Valley. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | Scattered trees down in a six mile long path. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Richmond | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmond | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Spring | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Farming | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Roscoe | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Nicholas | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Jacobs Prairie | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Martin | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rockville | 9.5 miles | 8 | |
| Marty | 10.5 miles | 8 |
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 Richmond | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2045720 | 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 650067. 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.




