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Saint Anthony, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in St. Anthony City. It lies in ZIP code area 55418. The Survey maps it on the New Brighton quadrangle. 9,257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Saint Anthony within Hennepin County

On record in Saint Anthony

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

In the county-history sources

105 words on this township

History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Anthony City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Anthony City - 105 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saint Anthony between 1999 and 2015, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2000Smoking1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saint Anthony: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone

Every working 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
Minneapolis3.7 miles26
Kenwood Gables5.3 miles26
Robbinsdale6.4 miles21
Glenwood Junction6.5 miles26
Golden Valley7.0 miles21
Calhoun Beach7.1 miles26
Brooklyn Center7.2 miles21
Crystal7.6 miles21

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 Saint AnthonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q282822The 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 650513. 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.