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Bejou, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bejou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56516. The Survey maps it on the Bejou quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Bejou within Mahnomen County

Population over time

2 figures

Bejou fell from 89 to 84 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
201089
202084-5 (-6%)

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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bejou between 1999 and 2014, burning about 5,136 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4

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
21 May 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota AgencySUPPORT BEJOU
18 May 2014Debris and open burning155 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictNELSON PRAIRIE WEST
16 May 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined146 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictNELSON PRIARIE WEST 1
14 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictNELSON DITCH
30 April 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictWAUMBACH WMA
27 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictNELSON RAILROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahnomen County

Storms near this place

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bejou in 30 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 16 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 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
August 2007LightningBejou$500,000Lightning struck the bell tower of a church in Bejou, igniting a fire in the tower. The fire spread throughout the building, causing a total loss. The building had been recently renovated.
August 2020FloodBejou$5,000Runoff from heavy rain entered a home.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Bejou$5,000A brief touchdown pulled up tin on a barn roof.
April 2013FloodBejou$5,000no account filed
March 2009FloodBejou$5,000no account filed
April 2009FloodBejou$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBejou$1,000Trees were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBejou$200Branches were blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBejou-A few trees were snapped in a shelterbelt.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBejou-Many 6 to 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBejou-A quonset was destroyed and trees were knocked down at a farmstead.
July 2012HailBejou-The hail ranged in size from pea to golfball with very little wind.
June 2010HailBejou-Golf ball to hen egg sized hail fell.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Bejou-The tornado tracked northeastward for roughly 4 miles, where it then crossed into Polk County at 407 PM CDT. The tornado continued in Polk County for another 2 miles. Several trees were knocked down in farm shelterbelts. The total track length was about 6 miles with peak winds estimated at 80 mph.
July 2006HailBejou-Nickle to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBejou-Large branches were blown down along with power lines.
July 2002Tornado (F1)Bejou-Numerous trees were uprooted.
August 2020HailBejou-no account filed
August 2015HailBejou-no account filed
June 2012HailBejou-no account filed
July 2012HailBejou-no account filed
May 2010HailBejou-no account filed
May 2008HailBejou-no account filed
June 2008HailBejou-no account filed
July 2006HailBejou-no account filed
June 2002HailBejou-no account filed
July 2002HailBejou-no account filed
August 2002HailBejou-no account filed
August 2001HailBejou-no account filed
June 1999HailBejou-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
Mahnomen8.7 miles9
Beaulieu11.7 miles9
Waubun18.1 miles9
Pine Bend20.4 miles9
Mahkonce20.7 miles9
Naytahwaush22.3 miles10

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 BejouAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2058080The 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 639872. 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.