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Richville, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56576. The Survey maps it on the Dent quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Richville within Otter Tail County

Population over time

2 figures

Richville fell from 96 to 77 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
201096
202077-19 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Richville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 138 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 May 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2015Railroad operations and maintenance27 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2004Debris and open burning64 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2020Other causes1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 October 1995Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Perham Ready Mix Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

15 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richville in 15 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindRichville1 hurtA 3-foot diameter tree fell on a mobile home, injuring the man inside. The mobile home was destroyed, and it took an hour to free the man.
May 2023HailRichville-Trained Spotter reports 1.25 inch hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRichville-Corn fields were flattened and snapped by wind and hail.
July 2020Funnel CloudRichville-A persistent wall cloud produced a very brief funnel.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRichville-A mobile home was damaged.
April 2018HailRichville-The ground was covered with dime sized hail. Lightning and 45 mph wind gusts were also reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRichville-The wind gust was measured by a storm chaser along highway 108 at Rush Lake.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRichville-Sixty mile per hour wind speeds were reported.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Richville-The tornado broke off a few small trees near Marion Lake.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRichville-Trees were blown down and power was out for nearly 8 hours. Pontoon boats were flipped over at Pickerel Lake.
August 2004HailRichville-The hail fell near Pickerel Lake.
July 2022HailRichville-no account filed
June 2013HailRichville-no account filed
June 2013HailRichville-no account filed
July 2008HailRichville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Basswood5.0 miles13
Dent5.8 miles12
Ottertail6.7 miles13
Perham6.7 miles12
Pine Cone Court6.8 miles12
Richdale8.6 miles9
Amor9.1 miles13
Grand View Heights9.1 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 RichvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229040The 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 650069. 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.