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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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
Canadian National Railways Depotlisted 2005
Population over time
3 figuresBaudette 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1,104 | |
| 2010 | 1,106 | +2 (+0%) |
| 2020 | 966 | -140 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1921 USGS Baudette quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Baudette quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Baudette quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
93 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2012 | 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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake of the Woods County Peat Bogs | Peat | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
37 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $100,000 | Trees were blown down and a roof was torn off a mobile home. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Baudette | $20,000 | Vehicles and awnings at the Sportsman Lodge were damaged by the large hail. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Baudette | $10,000 | Many basements and roads were flooded. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Baudette | $10,000 | Streets and basements were flooded. Some streets had 12 to 16 inches of water on them. |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Baudette | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Baudette | $5,000 | A 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $2,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Baudette | $2,000 | Streets were flooded in Baudette. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $500 | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $500 | Branches were blown down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $500 | Large trees were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $500 | Strong winds blew a tree over. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | $200 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | - | 5 to 8 inch diameter trees were snapped off. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | - | Large trees were blown down near Norris Camp. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Baudette | - | County roads 65, 66, and 3 were washed out in spots. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Baudette | - | Most of the streets in town were flooded and some washouts were reported. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | - | 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | - | Seaplane blown ashore from dock. Trees down at Baudette Airport. There was reported roof damage. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | - | Wind gust to 50 knots measured by automated observing system at airport. Numerous tree limbs blown down. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Baudette | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Baudette | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitt | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Clementson | 8.8 miles | 6 | |
| Hackett | 9.5 miles | 7 | |
| Wheelers Point | 10.1 miles | 7 | |
| Graceton | 12.7 miles | 8 | |
| Carp | 14.5 miles | 8 | |
| Williams | 19.2 miles | 8 | |
| Faunce | 20.4 miles | 8 |
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 Baudette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926734 | 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 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.





