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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.

Badger within Roseau County

Population over time

2 figures

Badger 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.

YearPeople Change
2010375
2020429+54 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

59 since 1993

Regional 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2012Debris and open burning160 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Flash FloodBadger$250,000Streets, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindBadger$100,000Downburst 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 1997HailBadger$100,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBadger$50,000Several 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBadger$200no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBadger-The strong winds lifted shingles from a roof.
July 2013HailBadger-Heavy rainfall was also reported.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBadger-Several large tree branches were blown down. A nearby MNDOT RWIS sensor failed due to power loss from the strong winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBadger-Trees of 1 to 2 feet in diameter and 60 to 70 feet in height were snapped.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBadger-A second wave of thunderstorm winds broke down numerous additional four to six inch diameter tree limbs.
July 2009HailBadger-Heavy rain occurred with the hail.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBadger-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBadger-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 2002Tornado (F0)Badger-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Badger-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBadger-A 71 mph wind gust was measured at the Minnesota DOT RWIS site at Badger.
September 2019HailBadger-no account filed
August 2015HailBadger-no account filed
July 2012HailBadger-no account filed
July 2011HailBadger-no account filed
July 2011HailBadger-no account filed
August 2003HailBadger-no account filed
August 2003HailBadger-no account filed
August 2001HailBadger-no account filed
August 2001HailBadger-no account filed
May 2000HailBadger-no account filed
June 1999HailBadger-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Badger-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Badger-no account filed
July 1998HailBadger-no account filed
June 1997HailBadger-no account filed
May 1996HailBadger-no account filed
August 1995HailBadger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Fox7.3 miles9
Haug9.4 miles9
Ross9.9 miles8
Greenbush10.5 miles9
Leo12.6 miles12
Pinecreek14.0 miles8
Roseau14.0 miles9
Malung15.4 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 BadgerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q798996The 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.