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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.

Saint Rosa within Stearns County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint 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.

YearPeople Change
201068
202058-10 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

4,605 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 Millwood Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Millwood Township - 4,605 words.

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
2 July 2006Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictLOVELL L.1
6 May 1997Arson/incendiarism143 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictLOVELL L.2
5 May 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictLOVELL L 2
2 May 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Freeport4.9 miles10
Melrose6.2 miles10
Saint Anthony6.3 miles9
New Munich7.2 miles10
Saint Francis7.2 miles10
Albany10.4 miles9
Meire Grove10.7 miles10
Greenwald11.7 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 RosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2035946The 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.