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.
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.
First State Banklisted 1982 · 0.0 miles away
Church of St. Joseph-Catholiclisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away
St. Benedict's Convent and College Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,534 | |
| 2020 | 7,029 | +495 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS St Joseph quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS St. Joseph quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,786 words on this townshipHistory 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 1999Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 260 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 October 2000 | Smoking | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 January 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J L Shiely Co Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stommes Stearns County Sand & Grave | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Crystal Gray Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Diamond Pink Quarry | Granite | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collegeville | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Five Points | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Riverview Park | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Lake | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Waite Park | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Rockville | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Jacobs Prairie | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Hi-Vue Park | 6.9 miles | 12 |
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 Joseph | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1924137 | The 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.





