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Saint Augusta, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Augusta City. It lies in ZIP code area 56301. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augusta quadrangle. 3,497 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Saint Augusta within Stearns County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Augusta grew from 3,317 to 3,497 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
20103,317
20203,497+180 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1,371 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Augusta City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Augusta City - 1,371 words.

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Saint Augusta between 1993 and 2013, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2004Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 1998Debris and open burning150 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns 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 Augusta: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Charcoal Gray QuarryGraniteProducer
Hardrives Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stearns 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
Luxemburg2.6 miles10
Pleasant Lake5.4 miles8
Waite Park7.0 miles12
Saint Cloud7.3 miles12
Riverview Park7.5 miles12
Rockville7.6 miles8
Marty8.2 miles8
Fairhaven9.5 miles10

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 AugustaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2674145The 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 1922765. 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.