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Baudette, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Baudette City. It lies in ZIP code area 56623. It stands on Baudette River. The Survey maps it on the Baudette quadrangle. 966 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

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Baudette within Lake of the Woods County

On record in Baudette

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Baudette fell from 1,104 to 966 between 2002 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
20021,104
20101,106+2 (+0%)
2020966-140 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Baudette between 1992 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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 burning41
Arson/incendiarism33
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1999Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake of the Woods County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Baudette: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Lake of the Woods County Peat BogsPeatOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake of the Woods County

Storms near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baudette in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindBaudette$100,000Trees were blown down and a roof was torn off a mobile home.
August 1998HailBaudette$20,000Vehicles and awnings at the Sportsman Lodge were damaged by the large hail.
July 2001Flash FloodBaudette$10,000Many basements and roads were flooded.
July 2001Flash FloodBaudette$10,000Streets and basements were flooded. Some streets had 12 to 16 inches of water on them.
May 1996Flash FloodBaudette$10,000no account filed
May 2005Tornado (F0)Baudette$5,000A tin roof was blown off a carport on the eastern side of Baudette. Minor shingle and tree damage also occurred along a two block path. Wind speeds were estimated to be around 60 mph.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBaudette$2,000Trees were blown down.
July 2001Flash FloodBaudette$2,000Streets were flooded in Baudette.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBaudette$1,000A large tree was blown down.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindBaudette$500Tree limbs were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBaudette$500Branches were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBaudette$500Large trees were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBaudette$500Strong winds blew a tree over.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBaudette$200Trees were blown down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBaudette-5 to 8 inch diameter trees were snapped off.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBaudette-Large trees were blown down near Norris Camp.
June 2002Flash FloodBaudette-County roads 65, 66, and 3 were washed out in spots.
June 2002Flash FloodBaudette-Most of the streets in town were flooded and some washouts were reported.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBaudette-The Baudette ASOS reported a 59 mph wind gust. Many trees were blown down. A storage center sustained major damage when all its sheet metal was torn off and blown across the nearby highway. The flying debris snapped power poles along the highway.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindBaudette-Seaplane blown ashore from dock. Trees down at Baudette Airport. There was reported roof damage.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindBaudette-Wind gust to 50 knots measured by automated observing system at airport. Numerous tree limbs blown down.
July 2006HailBaudette-no account filed
May 2005HailBaudette-no account filed
June 2005HailBaudette-no account filed
July 2003HailBaudette-no account filed
July 2003HailBaudette-no account filed
June 2002HailBaudette-no account filed
August 2002HailBaudette-no account filed
August 2002HailBaudette-no account filed
July 2001HailBaudette-no account filed
June 1999HailBaudette-no account filed
June 1999HailBaudette-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBaudette-no account filed
June 1999HailBaudette-no account filed
May 1998HailBaudette-no account filed
August 1998HailBaudette-no account filed
July 1997HailBaudette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake of the Woods 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
Pitt7.2 miles8
Clementson8.8 miles6
Hackett9.5 miles7
Wheelers Point10.1 miles7
Graceton12.7 miles8
Carp14.5 miles8
Williams19.2 miles8
Faunce20.4 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 BaudetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926734The 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 639732. 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.