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Beaulieu, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beaulieu Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56557. The Survey maps it on the Beaulieu quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Beaulieu within Mahnomen County

Population over time

2 figures

Beaulieu grew from 48 to 103 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
201048
2020103+55 (+115%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Beaulieu between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,315 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 86 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
Arson/incendiarism86
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
2 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMinnesota AgencyPEAT
9 June 2012Arson/incendiarism43 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictEDWIN LAKE
17 June 2013Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota AgencyAIR FORCE
8 May 2020Debris and open burning142 acresMinnesota AgencyELK RANCH
8 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyLAST CALL FIRE
7 May 2018Arson/incendiarism19 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Arson/incendiarism46 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2009Arson/incendiarism70 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahnomen County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaulieu in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2008Tornado (EF2)Beaulieu$500,000This tornado tracked to the north-northeast for about 16 miles and lifted about 3 miles south-southwest of Lengby, or near Sugar Bowl Lake. Numerous trees and power poles were snapped along the path. Farm sheds were blown down and hay wagons flipped. The damage path was around 250 yards wide where it crossed county road 122 about 2 miles east of Beaulieu. Peak winds were estimated at 115 mph.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBeaulieu-A number of 4 to 6-inch branches broken down. The wind gusted for about 5 minutes.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindBeaulieu-Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were broken down as a thunderstorm squall moved through town.
August 2019HailBeaulieu-Most of the hail was quarter size.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBeaulieu-Large tree branches were blown down.
May 2008HailBeaulieu-The fields looked white like cotton.
June 1997Flash FloodBeaulieu-4.1 inches of rain flooded several roads.
May 2010HailBeaulieu-no account filed
June 2007HailBeaulieu-no account filed
September 2005HailBeaulieu-no account filed
May 2001HailBeaulieu-no account filed
August 2000HailBeaulieu-no account filed
August 1997HailBeaulieu-no account filed
June 1997HailBeaulieu-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mahnomen 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
Mahnomen8.8 miles9
Mahkonce10.0 miles9
Naytahwaush10.7 miles10
Bejou11.7 miles9
Waubun12.9 miles9
Pine Bend12.9 miles9

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 BeaulieuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4877507The 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 639799. 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.