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Saint Joseph, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Joseph City. It lies in ZIP code area 56374. It stands on North Fork Watab River. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joseph quadrangle. 7,029 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Saint Joseph within Stearns County

On record in Saint Joseph

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 Joseph grew from 6,534 to 7,029 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
20106,534
20207,029+495 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

4,786 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. Joseph City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Joseph City - 4,786 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph between 1999 and 2020, burning about 270 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
Debris and open burning3
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
19 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 November 2020Debris and open burning260 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 October 2000Smoking10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 January 2000Debris and open burningunder 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Saint Joseph: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
J L Shiely Co Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stommes Stearns County Sand & GraveSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Crystal Gray QuarryGraniteProducer
Diamond Pink QuarryGraniteProducer

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
Collegeville3.1 miles12
Five Points4.2 miles12
Riverview Park4.7 miles12
Pleasant Lake4.9 miles8
Waite Park5.0 miles12
Rockville6.5 miles8
Jacobs Prairie6.7 miles9
Hi-Vue Park6.9 miles12

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 JosephAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924137The 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 650746. 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.