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Aldrich, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Aldrich City. It lies in ZIP code area 56434. The Survey maps it on the Aldrich North quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.

Aldrich within Wadena County

Population over time

2 figures

Aldrich fell from 48 to 35 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
201048
202035-13 (-27%)

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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Aldrich between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,263 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use15
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wadena County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aldrich in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2022Tornado (EF2)Aldrich$1,000,000This tornado was wrapped in damaging downburst winds and rain as it rapidly tracked to the north northeast from the Todd County line, across far southeast Wadena County for about 9.5 miles, to the Cass County line. It snapped numerous single pole and double X-braced power poles. it tumbled at least three center pivot irrigation systems. Numerous oak, ash, and pine trees were snapped. The Old Wadena and Bullard Campgrounds had swaths of pine trees laid down. One cabin had the roof and sidewalls torn out. Peak winds to 130 mph. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAldrich$100Tree branches were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAldrich-Trees and power lines were blown down between Verndale and Aldrich, in southern Aldrich Township.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAldrich-Widespread tree damage occurred along county road 2 through the area just north of the Staples airport. Numerous power poles were snapped and large tree branches and limbs were blown down across southern Thomastown Township.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAldrich-Tree branches up to 4 inches in diameter were snapped.
July 2009HailAldrich-Pea to dime sized hail fell for one to two minutes.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindAldrich-Several large 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were broken down. The high wind was followed by a minute or two of pea to dime sized hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAldrich-The wind gust was measured at the Staples airport in southeast Wadena county.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAldrich-Many large trees were blown down or snapped off.
June 2005Funnel CloudAldrich-A brief funnel was reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAldrich-4 to 6 inch diameter pine trees were blown down across the south bound lane of U.S. Highway 10.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAldrich-Significant tree damage occurred around the Staples airport.
July 2000Flash FloodAldrich-Heavy rain caused flooding over US Highway 10 between Verndale and Staples.
May 2022HailAldrich-no account filed
July 2010HailAldrich-no account filed
April 2007HailAldrich-no account filed
September 2002HailAldrich-no account filed
August 1997HailAldrich-no account filed
September 1996HailAldrich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wadena 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
Verndale4.4 miles9
Wadena11.5 miles9
Blue Grass12.1 miles9
Esterdy12.8 miles9
Oylen15.5 miles8
Nimrod18.4 miles8
Sebeka19.3 miles9
Menahga27.4 miles10

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 AldrichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2261646The 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 639265. 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.