Akeley, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Akeley City. It lies in ZIP code area 56433. The Survey maps it on the Akeley quadrangle. 404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,430 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAkeley fell from 432 to 404 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 | 432 | |
| 2020 | 404 | -28 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Akeley quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Akeley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Akeley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | LAKE ERIN |
| 14 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akeley in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Akeley | 1 hurt, $250,000 | 8 trees were uprooted and 3 recreational vehicles were demolished by falling trees. One man received a bruise on his head. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akeley | $25,000 | Numerous trees were blown down at the Akeley campground. One fell on a car and another fell on a truck. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akeley | $2,000 | Large trees were blown onto a power line. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akeley | - | Numerous six inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Akeley | - | A brief touchdown blew over several trees. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akeley | - | A Minnesota DOT RWIS site measured a 62 mph wind gust. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Akeley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Akeley | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Akeley | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Akeley | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Akeley | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Akeley | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Akeley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q591765 | 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 655094. 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.
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.





