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Robbinsdale, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Robbinsdale City. It lies in ZIP code area 55422. The Survey maps it on the Minneapolis North quadrangle. 14,646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Robbinsdale within Hennepin County

On record in Robbinsdale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Robbinsdale grew from 1,074 to 14,646 between 1890 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
18901,074
201013,953
202014,646+693 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Robbinsdale between 1999 and 2012, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2012Arson/incendiarism60 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 October 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Robbinsdale: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Bentonite. 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
North Central Aggregate PitBentoniteProducer
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robbinsdale in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2020Tornado (EF0)Robbinsdale$250,000An NWS Survey indicated a brief EF-0 tornado that moved across the City of Crystal, Minnesota. The tornado started near Memory Lane Park, between 43rd and 44th Avenue North and Jersey Avenue North. A large tree was uprooted at this location. This tornado moved eastward between 43rd and 44th Avenue and damaged several large trees, up to 4 feet in diameter, along its path. The tornado lifted near Douglas Drive North. Some roof damage occurred, but the majority of the trees and large limbs fell on power lines, roads, and yards. ||There was also damage on 45th Avenue North, but the damage was consistent with downburst winds and more sporadic. The majority of the damage in the broad area of New Hope, Crystal, North Minneapolis, and Robbinsdale was from downburst winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale$250,000A large bow echo surged across eastern Hennepin County causing numerous downed trees and power lines. Some of the trees were 12 inches in diameter. There were also several measured reports of severe wind gusts from private weather stations in Hennepin County. One measured wind gust was 58 knots. In addition, the Spirit of the Lakes Festival had shelters and tents blown down. The Spring Park City Hall had a tree blown down. At one point, 33,000 Xcel Energy customers were out of power in Hennepin County.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale$10,000Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Crystal.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph downed a tree between Crystal and Robbinsdale.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph downed blue ash tree onto a two story home just east of Noble Elementary School.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-Large trees between 12-24 inches in diameter down.
August 2020HailRobbinsdale-There was likely larger hail to the west and north of Robbinsdale as local radar had higher returns in this area.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-There was a large swath of downburst, or straight-line wind damage between the City of Crystal (west of Highway 100), eastward to Interstate 94 between Dowling and 49th Avenue North. Some of the trees landed on homes and damaged roofs and cars.
July 2019Flash FloodRobbinsdale-Local officials closed 42nd Avenue in New Hope due to flooding.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-A 10 inch diameter tree was blown down in Robbinsdale.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-Several large tree branches were blown down in southern Robbinsdale, near Grimes Pond.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRobbinsdale-A 12 inch diameter tree was blown down in New Hope.
May 2008HailRobbinsdale-Occurred at 36th and Highway 169.
June 2005HailRobbinsdale-Quarter sized hail fell at North Memorial Hospital.
August 2023HailRobbinsdale-no account filed
August 2019HailRobbinsdale-no account filed
May 2015HailRobbinsdale-no account filed
May 2015HailRobbinsdale-no account filed
September 2015HailRobbinsdale-no account filed
April 2012HailRobbinsdale-no account filed
July 1995HailRobbinsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Crystal1.1 miles21
Golden Valley1.7 miles21
New Hope2.6 miles21
Brooklyn Center3.0 miles21
Glenwood Junction3.1 miles26
Brooklyn Park4.4 miles21
Mission Farms4.6 miles21
Medicine Lake4.8 miles25

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 RobbinsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2045704The 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 650164. 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.