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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.

Richmond within Stearns County

Population over time

2 figures

Richmond 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,422
20201,475+53 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

60 words on this township

History 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 2006

Regional 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 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
24 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cold Spring Crushing PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gertkin Marl PitsLimestone, GeneralProducerMarl
Opalescent QuarryGraniteProducer
Richmond Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sauk River Area ClaysAluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, FreeOccurrence

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRichmond$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down around Richmond.
June 2015HailRichmond-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 2013Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Several power lines were blown down in Richmond.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRichmond-A few trees were uprooted near Richmond.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRichmond-An eight inch diameter tree was uprooted.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRichmond-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 2005HailRichmond-Dime sized hail was reported 1 mile east of Eden Valley.
September 2005HailRichmond-Hail covered the ground.
April 2004HailRichmond-Penny sized hail fell just east of Eden Valley.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Scattered trees down in a six mile long path.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRichmond-Estimated windspeed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRichmond-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRichmond-no account filed
July 2016Funnel CloudRichmond-no account filed
April 2015HailRichmond-no account filed
June 2012HailRichmond-no account filed
August 2011HailRichmond-no account filed
August 2011HailRichmond-no account filed
July 2011HailRichmond-no account filed
August 2008HailRichmond-no account filed
June 2007HailRichmond-no account filed
June 2007HailRichmond-no account filed
August 2006HailRichmond-no account filed
August 2006HailRichmond-no account filed
July 2003HailRichmond-no account filed
August 2001HailRichmond-no account filed
May 1998HailRichmond-no account filed
May 1998HailRichmond-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRichmond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
Cold Spring4.7 miles9
Farming6.0 miles9
Roscoe6.6 miles8
Saint Nicholas6.7 miles9
Jacobs Prairie7.0 miles9
Saint Martin8.6 miles8
Rockville9.5 miles8
Marty10.5 miles8

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 RichmondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2045720The 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.