Badger, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Badger City. It lies in ZIP code area 56714. The Survey maps it on the Badger quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBadger grew from 375 to 429 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 | 375 | |
| 2020 | 429 | +54 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1919 USGS Badger quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Badger quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
59 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Badger between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,706 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Badger in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 18 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Badger | $250,000 | Streets, low spots, rivers, and basements were flooded by 4 to 9 inches of rain over a short duration of time. Cars that got stuck in the flood waters were abandoned where they stalled. Farm fields and access roads were also flooded. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | $100,000 | Downburst winds blew across northern Barto, Eastern Soleer, and Mosse townships, snapping numerous trees in shelterbelts and farmsteads throughout the area. A steel clad pole shed was torn open and spread along a half mile path to the east, where a two stall shop was torn open. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Badger | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | $50,000 | Several large three foot diameter trees were broken down in Badger. A wooden storage shed at the cemetery was torn off its foundation and flipped over. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | $200 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | The strong winds lifted shingles from a roof. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Badger | - | Heavy rainfall was also reported. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Several large tree branches were blown down. A nearby MNDOT RWIS sensor failed due to power loss from the strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Trees of 1 to 2 feet in diameter and 60 to 70 feet in height were snapped. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | A second wave of thunderstorm winds broke down numerous additional four to six inch diameter tree limbs. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Badger | - | Heavy rain occurred with the hail. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | A few shingles were blown off roofs. A MN DOT RWIS sensor near Badger reported a wind gust to 52 mph near the time of this event. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Badger | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Badger | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | A 71 mph wind gust was measured at the Minnesota DOT RWIS site at Badger. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Badger | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Badger | - | 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 Badger | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q798996 | 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 639556. 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.






