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.
Population over time
2 figuresWest 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19,540 | |
| 2020 | 20,615 | +1,075 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1951 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS St. Paul East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS St Paul East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS St. Paul East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2000Regional 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 maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | SAND DUNES |
| 21 October 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit | Kaolin | Producer | Kaolinite | |
| Dakota County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Standard Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Standard Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Twin City Brick Co Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lilydale | 1.3 miles | 28 | |
| Mendota Heights | 3.0 miles | 28 | |
| Sunfish Lake | 3.1 miles | 28 | |
| Mendota | 3.9 miles | 28 | |
| South Saint Paul | 3.9 miles | 28 | |
| Inver Grove Heights | 5.6 miles | 28 | |
| Wescott | 6.7 miles | 28 | |
| Eagan | 8.5 miles | 30 |
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 Paul | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2036838 | The 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.









