Saint Rosa, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Millwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56331. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Rosa fell from 68 to 58 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 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 58 | -10 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Freeport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,605 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 Millwood Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Millwood Township - 4,605 words.
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Saint Rosa between 1992 and 2006, burning about 393 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LOVELL L.1 |
| 6 May 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 143 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LOVELL L.2 |
| 5 May 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LOVELL L 2 |
| 2 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freeport | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Melrose | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Anthony | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| New Munich | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Francis | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Albany | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Meire Grove | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Greenwald | 11.7 miles | 8 |
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 Rosa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2035946 | 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 651049. 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.




