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Crossings / Minnesota

Minnesota
crossings.

Cities12610+ crossings each
Public crossings2,196at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates31%1,345 with no active device
Reported incidents161Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 2,196 public at-grade crossings across the 126 Minnesota cities with at least ten of them. Minneapolis has the most at 76.

BNSF Railway Company operates the most of them at 595, ahead of SOO Line Railroad Company at 291.

61% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 31% with gates.

Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.

Every Minnesota city on the inventory

CityCountyCrossingsGatedQuiet zoneIncidents
Minneapolis Hennepin 76 37% 67 13
St Paul Ramsey 66 32% 62 5
Crookston Polk 55 16% 0 3
Duluth St Louis 49 18% 22 2
Owatonna Steele 45 42% 0 11
Winona Winona 44 34% 15 6
Moorhead Clay 38 42% 7 10
Rochester Olmsted 34 35% 0 6
Albert Lea Freeborn 30 53% 0 2
Hibbing St Louis 30 27% 0 3
Little Falls Morrison 30 30% 3 0
Warren Marshall 28 18% 0 2
Fergus Falls Otter Tail 27 22% 0 0
Bloomington Hennepin 26 42% 0 0
St Cloud Stearns 26 54% 3 2
Thief River Falls Pennington 26 38% 0 3
Austin Mower 25 32% 0 1
Faribault Rice 25 24% 0 2
East Grand Forks Polk 24 17% 0 3
Detroit Lakes Becker 23 57% 3 4
Fairmont Martin 23 17% 0 1
Iron St Louis 23 57% 0 0
Wells Faribault 23 9% 0 1
Cloquet Carlton 22 45% 0 3
Erskine Polk 22 23% 0 1
Golden Valley Hennepin 22 32% 0 1
Northfield Rice 22 36% 3 3
Two Harbors Lake 22 36% 0 0
Lakeville Dakota 21 19% 0 0
New Ulm Brown 21 33% 0 2
Shakopee Scott 21 43% 0 1
Holt Marshall 20 0% 0 0
St Louis Park Hennepin 19 47% 0 0
Willmar Kandiyohi 19 68% 0 0
Aitkin Aitkin 18 22% 0 0
Hermantown St Louis 18 61% 0 1
Jordan Scott 18 17% 0 0
Mankato Blue Earth 18 56% 0 2
Rosemount Dakota 18 61% 6 2
White Bear Lake Ramsey 18 72% 0 1
Barnesville Clay 17 12% 0 0
Hallock Kittson 17 12% 0 1
New Brighton Ramsey 17 35% 0 1
Beaver Creek Rock 16 13% 0 1
Bricelyn Faribault 16 6% 0 0
Pipestone Pipestone 16 56% 0 0
Roseville Ramsey 16 44% 0 1
Viking Marshall 16 6% 0 0
Warroad Roseau 16 63% 0 6
Waseca Waseca 16 38% 0 1
Humboldt Kittson 15 0% 0 1
Monticello Wright 15 0% 0 0
Mountain Iron St Louis 15 53% 0 3
Worthington Nobles 15 40% 0 2
Appleton Swift 14 0% 0 1
Blooming Prairie Steele 14 7% 0 0
Campbell Wilkin 14 21% 0 1
Climax Polk 14 0% 0 0
Granite Falls Yellow Medicine 14 43% 0 0
Hanley Falls Yellow Medicine 14 21% 0 0
Hinckley Pine 14 29% 0 0
Luverne Rock 14 0% 0 1
Nashua Wilkin 14 21% 0 1
New Prague Scott 14 14% 0 0
Pine City Pine 14 50% 0 0
Blue Earth Faribault 13 23% 0 2
Henning Otter Tail 13 23% 0 0
Lancaster Kittson 13 23% 0 0
Mentor Polk 13 31% 0 1
Middle River Marshall 13 0% 0 0
Morris Stevens 13 62% 0 2
Plummer Red Lake 13 23% 0 0
Plymouth Hennepin 13 38% 3 0
Rothsay Wilkin 13 8% 0 0
Sabin Clay 13 8% 0 0
Williams Lake Of The Woods 13 23% 0 1
Argyle Marshall 12 17% 0 1
Baudette Lake Of The Woods 12 50% 0 0
Boyd Lac Qui Parle 12 8% 0 0
Butterfield Watonwan 12 17% 0 0
Fairfax Renville 12 0% 0 0
Greenbush Roseau 12 8% 0 1
International Falls Koochiching 12 50% 0 3
Lyle Mower 12 8% 0 0
Marshall Lyon 12 67% 0 2
Roseau Roseau 12 0% 0 0
Sleepy Eye Brown 12 42% 0 1
Trimont Martin 12 17% 0 0
Alexandria Douglas 11 91% 0 1
Alvarado Marshall 11 9% 0 0
Arlington Sibley 11 36% 0 0
Cambridge Isanti 11 64% 0 1
Cook St Louis 11 55% 0 0
Dawson Lac Qui Parle 11 18% 0 0
Deer River Itasca 11 27% 0 0
Glenville Freeborn 11 27% 0 1
Grand Rapids Itasca 11 91% 8 0
Hastings Dakota 11 27% 2 0
Kerrick Pine 11 9% 0 0
Perham Otter Tail 11 82% 0 6
Sacred Heart Renville 11 9% 0 0
Staples Todd 11 45% 1 0
Stephen Marshall 11 36% 0 0
Tyler Lincoln 11 36% 0 1
Welcome Martin 11 9% 0 1
Badger Roseau 10 0% 0 0
Balaton Lyon 10 20% 0 1
Bellingham Lac Qui Parle 10 20% 0 0
Beltrami Polk 10 0% 0 0
Bena Cass 10 20% 0 0
Brookston St Louis 10 40% 0 1
Comstock Clay 10 10% 0 0
Cottonwood Lyon 10 60% 0 0
Dodge Center Dodge 10 20% 0 1
Fisher Polk 10 10% 0 0
Fridley Anoka 10 40% 2 0
Glencoe McLeod 10 50% 0 4
Glenwood Pope 10 30% 0 2
Hitterdal Clay 10 0% 0 0
Janesville Waseca 10 60% 0 2
Madelia Watonwan 10 10% 0 4
Meadowlands St Louis 10 50% 0 1
Milan Chippewa 10 10% 0 1
Mountain Lake Cottonwood 10 50% 0 0
Norwood Carver 10 60% 0 1
Sherburn Martin 10 10% 0 0

Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.