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Sandstone, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Sandstone City. It lies in ZIP code area 55072. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sandstone North quadrangle. 2,462 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Sandstone within Pine County

On record in Sandstone

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sandstone fell from 2,849 to 2,462 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
20102,849
20202,462-387 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Sandstone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 44 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism44
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandstone in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A photo was received showing numerous uprooted trees and several downed power lines.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Several 3 to 5 inch diameter trees were broken by the storm.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A ten inch diameter tree was broken by the storm.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A tree was knocked down by the wind.
July 2016Flash FloodSandstone-The Pine County Sheriff's Office reported Ash Avenue in Sandstone, MN, near the park, was under 4 to 5 feet of water.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Downed trees also brought down power lines.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A large tree was uprooted.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Trees were blown down.
September 2002HailSandstone-The hail lasted 30 minutes.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down many trees and power lines from the Sandstone area south to near Pine City. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2024HailSandstone-no account filed
August 2023HailSandstone-no account filed
May 2022HailSandstone-no account filed
September 2010HailSandstone-no account filed
July 2007HailSandstone-no account filed
April 2004HailSandstone-no account filed
September 2000HailSandstone-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSandstone-no account filed
August 2000HailSandstone-no account filed
August 1999HailSandstone-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSandstone-no account filed
September 1997HailSandstone-no account filed
May 1996HailSandstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Banning2.2 miles7
Groningen3.3 miles7
Friesland4.6 miles8
Finlayson5.5 miles7
Askov5.9 miles7
Rutledge9.2 miles7
Evergreen Park9.2 miles8
Hinckley9.2 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 SandstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000182The 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 651181. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.