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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.

Rush City within Chisago County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Rush 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,079
20203,228+149 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

80 since 1993

Regional 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 burning31
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSaint Croix National Scenic RiverMCGUIRE
15 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2006Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chisago County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001HailRush City$400,000Ninety percent of homes in town received damage. Hundreds of broken windows. Siding, roofs and vehicles damaged by wind driven hail.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRush City$60,000Roof ripped off pole barn. Siding torn from garage, and then blown onto truck. Trees toppled on to two pickup trucks.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRush City-A few trees were blown down in Rush City, along Highway 61.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRush City-A large tree was blown down near 525th and Fairfield Avenue in Rush City.
June 2010Tornado (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 2010Thunderstorm WindRush City-A few trees were uprooted near Rush City, Minnesota.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRush City-Scattered trees and power lines toppled.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRush City-Few trees felled.
June 2005Tornado (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 2004Tornado (F0)Rush City-A weak tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRush City-A shed and numerous trees were downed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRush City-Trees down. Boats blown into each other on Rush Lake.
May 2022HailRush City-no account filed
April 2015HailRush City-no account filed
June 2010HailRush City-no account filed
April 2007HailRush City-no account filed
April 2004HailRush City-no account filed
April 2004HailRush City-no account filed
May 2004HailRush City-no account filed
May 1994HailRush City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chisago 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
Harris6.9 miles16
Rush Point7.6 miles12
Stark8.8 miles12
Sunrise11.2 miles17
North Branch12.0 miles16
Oakwood Court12.4 miles16
Branch13.8 miles13
Kost14.3 miles14

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2198913The 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.