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Woodbury, Minnesota

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Woodbury City. It lies in ZIP code area 55125. The Survey maps it on the Lake Elmo quadrangle. 75,102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

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Woodbury within Washington County

On record in Woodbury

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Woodbury grew from 61,961 to 75,102 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
201061,961
202075,102+13,141 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

118 words on this township

History of Washington County and the St. Croix Valley Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Woodbury City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Woodbury City - 118 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Woodbury between 1996 and 2017, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
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 Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodbury: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Twincities Silica Pit & MillSilicaPast Producer
Afton Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

50 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodbury in 50 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 30 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$14,000,000Roofs off houses. Estimated windspeed.
May 1996HailWoodbury$1,700,000no account filed
September 2007Tornado (EF0)Woodbury$500,000A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down in the southwestern portion of Woodbury, along Bailey Road.|It dissipated when it reached Woodlane Drive. The tornado caused damage to multiple townhouses, trees, and road signs.
May 2017LightningWoodbury$450,000A home in Woodbury was struck by lightning and caused enough damage to make the home unlivable. No injuries were reported as the homeowner was not at home.
May 2012HailWoodbury$100,000The public reported golf ball hail near the intersection of Bailey Road, and Woodlane in Woodbury, Minnesota. In addition, roof and car damage was reported around Woodbury due to the large hail stones.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$50,000A NWS Skywarn Instructor, who is a broadcast meteorologist, surveyed an area of that was associated with straight-line wind damage that occurred in a new subdivision in Stonemill Farms in Woodbury, Minnesota. The damage was mainly to trees blown down and some siding blown off homes around Aster Lane, Windmill Curve, Walden Drive and Sawmill Curve.
September 2025HailWoodbury-Report received via mPING.
September 2025HailWoodbury-Report received via mPING.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Measured just southeast of Radio Dr and Lake Rd.
September 2025HailWoodbury-Report received via mPING.
September 2025HailWoodbury-Report received via mPING.
September 2025HailWoodbury-Report submitted via X.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-A storm chaser measured the wind gust on a personal weather station.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-A picture was shared on social media showing large trees uprooted and a home fence that was knocked over.
August 2021HailWoodbury-Most of the hail was pea to dime size over the Woodbury area.
July 2020Tornado (EF0)Woodbury-A tornado damaged about one dozen trees, soffit was ripped off a house, a semi was tipped over, and about six greenhouse hoops were damaged.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Wind gust measured by a home weather station. In addition, several large tree branches were blown down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-A large tree was snapped off in Woodbury.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Several trees were blown down halfway between Woodbury, and Lakeland.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Several large tree branches and a few small trees were blown down across the city of Woodbury.
May 2012HailWoodbury-Several areas between Newport and Woodbury received up to golf ball size hail.
July 2009HailWoodbury-Local amateur radio operators reported nickel to quarter size hail near Woodbury.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Three inch diameter branches felled just north of I-94.
September 2007HailWoodbury-Hail occurred at I-494 and Tamarack Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-A citizen on Duckwood Trail recorded a wind gust of 59 MPH. A tree on the property was downed onto a deck. More than 50 trees were downed across the city, mainly south of Valley Creek Road and west of Woodbury Drive. The Colby Lake development was hardest hit. One home lost a corner of its roof and yard objects were thrown around.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Numerous trees felled.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-4 inch diameter tree limbs down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997HailWoodbury-Three inches of rain and street flooding reported in area.
April 2026HailWoodbury-no account filed
August 2025HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
September 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
September 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
September 2022HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2012HailWoodbury-no account filed
April 2006HailWoodbury-no account filed
June 2005HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2004HailWoodbury-no account filed
May 2001HailWoodbury-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-no account filed
June 1998HailWoodbury-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodWoodbury-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-no account filed
May 1996HailWoodbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Landfall2.1 miles17
Oakbury2.2 miles17
Oakdale2.7 miles17
Newport4.5 miles28
Saint Paul Park5.9 miles18
Lake Elmo6.5 miles17
Cottage Grove6.7 miles18
East Cottage Grove7.0 miles18

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 WoodburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q862672The 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 659734. 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.