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.
Population over time
2 figuresRichville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 96 | |
| 2020 | 77 | -19 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1915 USGS Perham quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Dent quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Detroit Lakes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1993Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 May 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 27 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 64 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2020 | Other causes | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 October 1995 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perham Ready Mix Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richville | 1 hurt | A 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 2023 | Hail | Richville | - | Trained Spotter reports 1.25 inch hail. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richville | - | Corn fields were flattened and snapped by wind and hail. |
| July 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Richville | - | A persistent wall cloud produced a very brief funnel. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richville | - | A mobile home was damaged. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Richville | - | The ground was covered with dime sized hail. Lightning and 45 mph wind gusts were also reported. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richville | - | The wind gust was measured by a storm chaser along highway 108 at Rush Lake. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richville | - | Sixty mile per hour wind speeds were reported. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Richville | - | The tornado broke off a few small trees near Marion Lake. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richville | - | Trees were blown down and power was out for nearly 8 hours. Pontoon boats were flipped over at Pickerel Lake. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Richville | - | The hail fell near Pickerel Lake. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Richville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Richville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Richville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Richville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basswood | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Dent | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Ottertail | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Perham | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pine Cone Court | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Richdale | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Amor | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Grand View Heights | 9.1 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 Richville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229040 | 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 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.






