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Barnum, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Barnum City. It lies in ZIP code area 55707. It stands on West Fork Moose Horn River. The Survey maps it on the Barnum quadrangle. 620 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Barnum within Carlton County

Population over time

2 figures

Barnum grew from 613 to 620 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
2010613
2020620+7 (+1%)

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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Barnum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning55
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2013Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Barnum: 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Syracuse Reserve St-4Iron, ManganesePast Producer
Syracuse Reserve St-4Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hatchery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Uranium Prospect No 2UraniumOccurrence
Uranium Prospect No 5UraniumOccurrence
Uranium Prospect No 7UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnum in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnum-A thunderstorm microburst blew down 30-40 foot tall trees along Interstate 35 both north and south of the Barnum exit.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnum-A large pine tree that was blow down fell on a house.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBarnum-Many trees were blown down in Barnum. One of the larger trees was estimated to be 16 inches in diameter.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBarnum-Three maple trees, about 12 in diameter, were snapped approximately 16 up from the base.
March 2025HailBarnum-no account filed
September 2024HailBarnum-no account filed
May 2022HailBarnum-no account filed
July 2020HailBarnum-no account filed
August 2014HailBarnum-no account filed
June 2006HailBarnum-no account filed
January 2006HailBarnum-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBarnum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Moose Lake5.1 miles7
Nemadji5.2 miles7
Hillside Terrace Homes5.6 miles7
Mahtowa5.7 miles7
Duesler9.6 miles9
Atkinson10.0 miles9
Kettle River10.1 miles7
Otter Creek11.6 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 BarnumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1946247The 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 639642. 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.

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.