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Royalton, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Royalton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56373. The Survey maps it on the Royalton quadrangle. 1,281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Royalton within Morrison County

On record in Royalton

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Royalton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 453 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning48
Arson/incendiarism31
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Royalton in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 2010Thunderstorm WindRoyalton$250,000Significant straight-line wind damage occurred from near Royalton, east along and near East Nature Road for roughly 13 miles. Damage included a chicken barn roof blown off, shingles off a home, and several large trees uprooted.
May 2016HailRoyalton$500An automobile windshield was broken due to the hail stones.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Boat lift bent as well as 12 oak trees down on the property.
March 2017HailRoyalton-A swath of large hail, up to quarter size, fell east of Royalton, to southwest of Buckman.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Several small trees, up to 4 inches in diameter, were blown down near Royalton.
June 2007HailRoyalton-Some crop damage was reported in the area.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Trees and power lines down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Nearly a dozen large trees felled.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1999HailRoyalton-Farmer's entire field of corn flattened, ground white as snow from hail. Strong thunderstorm winds combined with wind driven hail to punch holes in house siding. Roof blown off pole building.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Trees toppled onto power lines.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-Shed destroyed. Roof damage. Estimated windspeed.
September 1997Tornado (F2)Royalton-Several buildings severely damaged. Numerous trees and power lines down.
September 2021HailRoyalton-no account filed
August 2021HailRoyalton-no account filed
March 2017HailRoyalton-no account filed
May 2004HailRoyalton-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudRoyalton-no account filed
June 1999HailRoyalton-no account filed
June 1999HailRoyalton-no account filed
July 1999HailRoyalton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
North Prairie3.6 miles11
Bowlus6.2 miles11
Vawter6.2 miles10
Gregory8.3 miles12
Elmdale10.5 miles11
Little Rock10.6 miles10
Little Falls10.7 miles12
Sobieski10.9 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 RoyaltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978432The 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 650375. 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.

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.