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Upsala, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Upsala City. It lies in ZIP code area 56384. The Survey maps it on the Upsala quadrangle. 487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Upsala within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Upsala grew from 427 to 487 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
2010427
2020487+60 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Upsala between 1992 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning32
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Upsala: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Morrison County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Upsala PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upsala in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindUpsala$25,000Several large trees and power lines were blown down near Upsala.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindUpsala-Several trees were toppled onto power lines.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindUpsala-A tree was downed along the road.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindUpsala-Damage occurred near and at Upsala High School. Roof vent blown off, power outage, 12 by 4 foot plexiglass sheet ripped off greenhouse. Metal gate pulled loose. Multiple trees were downed across from Upsala High School, one of which had a diameter of 20-24 inches.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindUpsala-Numerous trees down in campground. Tree on vehicle.
August 2021HailUpsala-no account filed
September 2002HailUpsala-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Elmdale4.5 miles11
Swanville7.9 miles10
Bowlus8.6 miles11
Sobieski9.8 miles12
Flensburg10.2 miles12
North Prairie11.8 miles11
Gregory14.4 miles12
Royalton14.8 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 UpsalaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227067The 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 653575. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.