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Virginia, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Virginia City. It lies in ZIP code area 55792. The Survey maps it on the Virginia quadrangle. 8,421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,437 feet above sea level.

Virginia within St. Louis County

On record in Virginia

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 12 of 19 shown

Every listing in St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Virginia fell from 8,712 to 8,421 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
20108,712
20208,421-291 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Virginia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 69 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
Arson/incendiarism69
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use34
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance71 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesJUNCTION 101 FIRE
14 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestPIKE MOUNTAIN
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 181 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 181 workings within 5 miles of Virginia: 148 past producers, 25 producers, 4 prospects, 2 plants. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Auburn & Great Western MinesIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1894
Brunt MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1906
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
El Jay #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Minorca Site PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Connie MineIron, Water, FreePast Producer1978
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 18wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Rouchleau GroupIron, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Aad MineIronPast Producer1904

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virginia in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
September 2021LightningVirginia$50,000A home on the 200 block of 5th Street South in Virginia was struck by lightning around 4:55AM CDT causing extensive damage. The home's electrical system was heavily damaged along with heavy damage to the exterior of the home. Firefighters were on scene for about 3 hours surveying the extent of the damage.
June 2025Flash FloodVirginia-Streets were flooded with water up to the rims of an SUV about 5 inches deep.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVirginia-A large pine tree was down across 5th Avenue in Virginia.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindVirginia-A large tree was uprooted.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Numerous trees were blown down from Virginia, Mt. Iron, Ely, and Babbit. More trees and telephone poles were downed in the Vermilion Lake area at these specific locations: Birch Point, Mud Creek, Fraser Bay, and Pine Island.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Trees were blown down from Virginia to Hibbing.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Several trees were blown down at Little Lake Fourteen. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Streets in a four-block area were blocked by fallen trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindVirginia-Thunderstorm winds toppled a 25-foot amateur radio antenna.
June 2024HailVirginia-no account filed
August 2017HailVirginia-no account filed
July 2012HailVirginia-no account filed
July 2011HailVirginia-no account filed
July 2003HailVirginia-no account filed
June 2002Flash FloodVirginia-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindVirginia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Franklin1.4 miles16
Rainy Junction1.8 miles12
West Virginia1.9 miles16
Midway2.3 miles12
Parkville2.3 miles16
Hopper2.5 miles16
Largo3.5 miles12
Eveleth4.2 miles12

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 VirginiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986681The 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 662719. 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.