Baldwin, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Baldwin City. It lies in ZIP code area 55371. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle. 7,104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBaldwin grew from 6,739 to 7,104 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 | 6,739 | |
| 2020 | 7,104 | +365 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
345 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 957 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 43 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 | 170 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 33 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge | NO 6 |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Baldwin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimmerman Terrace | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Zimmerman | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Orrock | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Santiago | 13.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lake Orono Estates | 14.3 miles | 13 | |
| Bailey | 14.5 miles | 13 | |
| Elk River | 14.5 miles | 13 | |
| Big Lake | 15.6 miles | 13 |
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 Baldwin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4850606 | 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 2832430. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.







