BlockBefore

Spring Hill, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spring Hill City. It lies in ZIP code area 56352. The Survey maps it on the Greenwald quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Stearns County

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Hill fell from 85 to 68 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
201085
202068-17 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

382 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Spring Hill City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This territory had been included in some township organizations since 1858, but in 1871, Spring Hill was organized with its present boundaries. The first election was held at the residence of F. W. Lenz, on July 10, at which the following officers Vvere chosen: Supervisors, Nicholas Hennen (chairman), John Gross, and Gerhard Stalberger; clerk, F. W. Lenz; assessor, Andrew Stalberger; and treasurer, Conrad Kerkhof.

Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.

Spring Hill Village has a population of about 100. It is a discontinued postoffice eight miles southwest of New Munich, the banking and shipping point, on the "Soo" Line. Mail is received by R. F. D. from Melrose. Matthew Bauer, blacksmith; Wm. J. Kobon, general store; Henry S. Ley, general store; Peter Rahmacher, harness.

Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Spring Hill City.

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill in 2004, burning about 2 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
Recreation and ceremony2

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
24 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictHENRY
24 April 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictHENRY JR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 tornado. 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
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Spring Hill$500,000Two storm chasers observed a tornado occasionally touching down northeast of Spring Hill. It mostly crossed open fields, but it did hit several turkey barns along County Road 12, removing portions of the tin roofs and causing other damage to siding. Several large pines were also severed near the turkey barns.
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Spring Hill-A tornado was spotted about 4.5 miles east-northeast of Spring Hill. A virtual storm survey was performed using storm chaser video. It was determined that the tornado was an EF-0 with approximate maximum wind estimated at 75 mph.
June 2015HailSpring Hill-no account filed
August 2013HailSpring Hill-no account filed
June 2009HailSpring Hill-no account filed
July 2000HailSpring Hill-no account filed

Every storm 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
Lake Henry4.8 miles8
Greenwald5.6 miles8
Elrosa6.8 miles8
Meire Grove7.5 miles10
New Munich8.3 miles10
Georgeville8.4 miles8
Saint Martin8.7 miles8
Melrose10.4 miles10

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 Spring HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2034741The 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 652454. 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.