Saint Paul, Minnesota
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Paul City. It lies in ZIP code area 55101. It lies near Raspberry Island. The Survey maps it on the Saint Paul East quadrangle. 311,527 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.
On record in Saint Paul
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 9 records
Amhoist Towerlisted 2022
Euclid View Flatslisted 2014
Minnesota Buildinglisted 2009
Osborn Buildinglisted 2018
Sam S. Shubert Theatre and Shubert Buildinglisted 2010
Superior Packing Company Plantlisted 2018- Hope Engine Company No. 3listed 2020
- Minnesota Milk Company Buildinglisted 2014
- Northern Federal Buildinglisted 2024
Population over time
4 figuresSaint Paul grew from 310,000 to 311,527 between 1970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 310,000 | |
| 1996 | 260,000 | |
| 2010 | 285,068 | +25,068 (+10%) |
| 2020 | 311,527 | +26,459 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 28 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.
- 1896 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1951 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS St. Paul East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS St Paul East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS St. Paul East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
13,839 words on this townshipHistory of Ramsey County and the City of St. Paul, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881; HIstory of Ramsey County and the CIty of St. Paul, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on St. Paul City covers the township.
Read the chapter on St. Paul City - 13,839 words.
Fires near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul between 1994 and 2020, burning about 22 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | SAND DUNES |
| 21 October 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 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
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saint Paul: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit | Kaolin | Producer | Kaolinite | |
| Dakota County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Twin City Brick Co Pit | Clay | Past 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gladstone | 4.6 miles | 28 | |
| Highwood | 4.7 miles | 28 | |
| Gloster | 4.7 miles | 22 | |
| Falcon Heights | 5.1 miles | 28 | |
| Maplewood | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Roseville | 5.4 miles | 22 | |
| Midvale | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Little Canada | 5.7 miles | 22 |
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 Paul | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28848 | 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 662851. 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.









