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Saint Cloud, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Cloud City. It lies in ZIP code area 56303. The Survey maps it on the Saint Cloud quadrangle. 68,881 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Saint Cloud within Stearns County

On record in Saint Cloud

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 11 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

4,619 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. Cloud City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Cloud City - 4,619 words.

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Saint Cloud between 1992 and 2018, burning about 242 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
25 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Saint Cloud: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
J L Shiely Co Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Granite City S and G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite City Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hardrives Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Killinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utz PitSand 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
Waite Park3.3 miles12
Riverview Park3.6 miles12
Hi-Vue Park4.3 miles12
Evergreen Village4.8 miles12
Sartell4.8 miles12
Five Points6.1 miles12
Saint Augusta7.3 miles10
Pleasant Lake7.9 miles8

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 CloudAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q736834The 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 650559. 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.