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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.

Akeley within Hubbard County

Population over time

2 figures

Akeley 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.

YearPeople Change
2010432
2020404-28 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

55 since 1992

Regional 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2003Naturalunder an acreChippewa National ForestLAKE ERIN
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Tornado (F1)Akeley1 hurt, $250,0008 trees were uprooted and 3 recreational vehicles were demolished by falling trees. One man received a bruise on his head.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAkeley$25,000Numerous trees were blown down at the Akeley campground. One fell on a car and another fell on a truck.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAkeley$2,000Large trees were blown onto a power line.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAkeley-Numerous six inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Akeley-A brief touchdown blew over several trees.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAkeley-A Minnesota DOT RWIS site measured a 62 mph wind gust.
June 2005HailAkeley-no account filed
July 2003HailAkeley-no account filed
May 2002HailAkeley-no account filed
June 1998HailAkeley-no account filed
June 1997HailAkeley-no account filed
June 1997HailAkeley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hubbard 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
Nevis6.5 miles9
Chamberlain6.8 miles10
Badoura10.0 miles8
Benedict10.8 miles9
Dorset12.4 miles9
Deer Lane13.5 miles9
Emmaville14.1 miles9
Laporte14.5 miles9

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 AkeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q591765The 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.