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Stanchfield, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Stanchfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55080. The Survey maps it on the Braham quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Stanchfield within Isanti County

Population over time

2 figures

Stanchfield fell from 118 to 103 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
2010118
2020103-15 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Stanchfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance37 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanchfield in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStanchfield$50,000Roof blown off portion of church.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindStanchfield-Pine trees blown over. Estimated windspeed.

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Stanchfield Corner0.5 miles11
Grandy2.7 miles11
Braham3.5 miles11
Andree4.4 miles11
Elm Park4.9 miles12
Springvale7.2 miles12
Cambridge7.3 miles11
Minnesota Boys Town8.1 miles11

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 StanchfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5559354The 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 652540. 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.