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Rogers, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Rogers City. It lies in ZIP code area 55374. The Survey maps it on the Rogers quadrangle. 13,295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Rogers within Hennepin County

Population over time

3 figures

Rogers grew from 190 to 13,295 between 1920 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
1920190
20108,597
202013,295+4,698 (+55%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rogers between 2000 and 2016, burning about 88 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
27 April 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2016Other causes3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2010Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Railroad operations and maintenance3.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 November 2013Arson/incendiarism2.5 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rogers: 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
Barthel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogers in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2006Tornado (F2)Rogers1 killed, $30,000,000A tornado touched down on the western edge of Sylvan Lake and moved quickly northeast. It produced F0 damage to some farms and rural residences in Hassan Township before strengthening and entering the northwest corner of Rogers. It gained F2 status briefly as it moved through a residential neighborhood in Rogers, where it took the life of a 10 year old girl in a home. A home weather station 2/3 mile southeast of the tornado at this point measured 65 mph inflow winds. The tornado crossed Interstate 94 and entered another neighborhood, where F1 damage was produced. One house with significant damage had a home weather station in the back yard. Once the data were retrieved, its peak gust was found to have reached 105 mph. The tornado then moved into the northern tip of Dayton, alternating between F0 and F1 damage, then exited Hennepin County, crossed the Mississippi River and entered the city of Ramsey in Anoka County (see separate entry). The maximum width in Hennepin County was 100 yards, although its maximum width in Anoka County was only 25 yards.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRogers$2,000,000A storm survey revealed that damaging straight line winds caused sporadic tree damage and a six mile long string of transmission lines to be destroyed. The worst damage was concentrated in the southern part of the Crow-Hassan County Park, north of County Road 109. ||Due to the downed high voltage lines, multiple roads were closed including |Hennepin County Road 116 near Fletcher, Hennepin County Rd 101 near Brockton, Bechtold Road, Park Drive, Trailhaven Road and Valley Drive. At one point there was no way to go south through the City of Rogers via any city street or county road.
August 2025HailRogers-Quarter sized hail was observed just northeast of I-94 and Highway 101 near Rogers.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRogers-A semi was blown over at Highway 101 and County Road 39.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRogers-Several large tree limbs were severed near Rogers.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRogers-Several power lines were blown down.
September 2007HailRogers-Occurred along I-94.
September 2007HailRogers-Occurred near Interstate 94 and Highway 101.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRogers-Once power was restored several hours later, it was found that 65 mph wind was measured on a home weather station. This wind was due to strong southeast inflow blowing in toward the tornado 2/3 mile to the northwest.
August 2006HailRogers-Smaller sized hail occurred for 10 minutes.
August 2006HailRogers-Hail occurred at I-94 Rogers exit.
September 2005HailRogers-An insurance adjuster estimated 400 homes and 75 townhomes were damaged by hail as large as baseballs. Many windows were broken. Numerous businesses had roof and heating/cooling units damaged. See Hennepin County thunderstorm wind report for property damage total.
September 2005HailRogers-Dime sized hail fell for 5 minutes.
June 2003Flash FloodRogers-County wide flooding observed with 5 to 10 inches reported in western and northern sections of Hennepin. The maximum amount of rain (10 inches), was recorded in Rogers, and in Hassen Township. A house along the South side of the Crow River was surrounded by water. A storage barn on the property, which contained classic automobiles, was swamped with two feet of water. Many basements and streets were also flooded in Maple Grove, Rogers, Plymoth, and Champlin. The intersection of Highway 100 and France Avenue in Brooklyn Center was also closed.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindRogers-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2018HailRogers-no account filed
July 2012HailRogers-no account filed
May 2008HailRogers-no account filed
September 2005HailRogers-no account filed
April 2004HailRogers-no account filed
May 2002HailRogers-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudRogers-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRogers-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
Fletcher1.3 miles15
Berning Mill4.0 miles15
Dayton4.3 miles15
Burschville6.2 miles15
Corcoran6.5 miles15
Dupont6.9 miles15
Champlin8.2 miles19
Leighton9.2 miles15

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 RogersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924299The 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 650221. 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.