Rush City, Minnesota
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rush City City. It lies in ZIP code area 55069. The Survey maps it on the Rush City quadrangle. 3,228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.
On record in Rush City
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
J. C. Carlson Houselisted 1980
Grant Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresRush City grew from 3,079 to 3,228 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 | 3,079 | |
| 2020 | 3,228 | +149 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1950 USGS Rush City quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rush City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Rush City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grantsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Rush City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 351 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Saint Croix National Scenic River | MCGUIRE |
| 15 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rush City in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Hail | Rush City | $400,000 | Ninety percent of homes in town received damage. Hundreds of broken windows. Siding, roofs and vehicles damaged by wind driven hail. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | $60,000 | Roof ripped off pole barn. Siding torn from garage, and then blown onto truck. Trees toppled on to two pickup trucks. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A few trees were blown down in Rush City, along Highway 61. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A large tree was blown down near 525th and Fairfield Avenue in Rush City. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Rush City | - | A tornado touched down in extreme northern Chisago County, uprooting trees and breaking large branches. It then moved into Pine County, where it intensified and produced EF-2 damage, and eventually tracked into Burnett County, Wisconsin. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A few trees were uprooted near Rush City, Minnesota. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | Scattered trees and power lines toppled. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | Few trees felled. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Rush City | - | A citizen videotaped a tornado that touched down just south of the Pine County line near the intersection of River Road and 540th Street in a heavily wooded area. The tornado downed some trees and pushed other trees over at an angle in this location before crossing the border into Pine County. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Rush City | - | A weak tornado briefly touched down in an open field. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A shed and numerous trees were downed. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | Trees down. Boats blown into each other on Rush Lake. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Rush City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harris | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rush Point | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Stark | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Sunrise | 11.2 miles | 17 | |
| North Branch | 12.0 miles | 16 | |
| Oakwood Court | 12.4 miles | 16 | |
| Branch | 13.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kost | 14.3 miles | 14 |
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 Rush City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2198913 | 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 650391. 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.








