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Saint Charles, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Charles City. It lies in ZIP code area 55972. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle. 3,990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Saint Charles within Winona County

On record in Saint Charles

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 3 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Charles grew from 3,735 to 3,990 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
20103,735
20203,990+255 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

10,138 words on this township

History of Winona County, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Charles City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Charles City - 10,138 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Saint Charles between 1992 and 2008, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Smoking6
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2005Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2002Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Charles: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bailey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Winona 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
Saratoga5.4 miles9
Utica5.8 miles10
Troy6.8 miles9
Clyde6.8 miles10
Crystal Spring8.4 miles14
Elba8.6 miles14
Bethany8.9 miles14
Fremont9.6 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 CharlesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227905The 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 650549. 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.