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West Saint Paul, Minnesota

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West St. Paul City. It lies in ZIP code area 55118. The Survey maps it on the Saint Paul East quadrangle. 20,615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

West Saint Paul within Dakota County

Population over time

2 figures

West Saint Paul grew from 19,540 to 20,615 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
201019,540
202020,615+1,075 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Saint Paul between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesSAND DUNES
21 October 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West Saint Paul: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin. 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
Twin City Brick Co. Clay PitKaolinProducerKaolinite
Dakota County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Standard Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Twin City Brick Co PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dakota 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
Lilydale1.3 miles28
Mendota Heights3.0 miles28
Sunfish Lake3.1 miles28
Mendota3.9 miles28
South Saint Paul3.9 miles28
Inver Grove Heights5.6 miles28
Wescott6.7 miles28
Eagan8.5 miles30

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 West Saint PaulAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2036838The 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 654003. 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.