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Askov, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Askov City. It lies in ZIP code area 55704. The Survey maps it on the Sandstone North quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Askov within Pine County

On record in Askov

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Askov fell from 364 to 331 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
2010364
2020331-33 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Askov between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,318 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2012Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Askov in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAskov-A portion of Interstate 35 was blocked by a large downed tree.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAskov-A 4 to 5 inch diameter tree was snapped about 2 feet from the ground.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAskov-Four birch trees were uprooted.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAskov-Broken tree limbs were blown onto the road.
July 2016Flash FloodAskov-The Pine County Sheriff's Office reported Pioneer Lane was under water in Askov, MN.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindAskov-A fallen tree was blocking Minnesota Highway 23 at Degerstorm Road.
October 2011HailAskov-An inch of rain fell in one hour.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAskov-Large trees were blown down.
July 2011Heavy RainAskov-Rainfall of 0.90 inch was measured after a ten minute downpour.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAskov-A few trees were uprooted.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Askov-The tornado touch down briefly in an open, rural area.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAskov-Nine-inch diameter trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAskov-Tree branches up to 9 inches in diameter were broken off. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2024HailAskov-no account filed
May 2012HailAskov-no account filed
July 2011HailAskov-no account filed
May 2009HailAskov-no account filed
August 2000HailAskov-no account filed
August 2000HailAskov-no account filed
August 2000HailAskov-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAskov-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAskov-no account filed
June 1996HailAskov-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Banning4.1 miles7
Sandstone5.9 miles7
Rutledge7.0 miles7
Finlayson7.2 miles7
Groningen7.9 miles7
Bruno8.9 miles7
Willow River9.6 miles7
Friesland10.5 miles8

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 AskovAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1842834The 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 639478. 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.