Bock, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bock City. It lies in ZIP code area 56353. The Survey maps it on the Bock quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBock fell from 106 to 78 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 106 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -28 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Bock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mora quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Bock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 800 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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 | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | 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 Bock: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bock in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bock | - | Large trees were blown down, some over one foot in diameter, between Milaca and Bock. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bock | - | Multiple trees were uprooted near Bock, Minnesota, some trees as large as three feet in diameter. Based on the storm survey, a severe downburst wind, up to 75 mph, occurred around Bock. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Bock | - | An EF-0 tornado touched down approximately one-quarter mile west of the Isanti County border, north of County Road 10. Damage was confined to crops and a few trees as it moved southeast into Isanti County at 50th Street. Maximum wind speeds were 70 to 80 mph. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Bock | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Bock | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milaca | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Woodward Brook | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Pease | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Foreston | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Page | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Brickton | 12.5 miles | 11 | |
| Estes Brook | 13.4 miles | 11 | |
| Princeton | 14.9 miles | 11 |
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 Bock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2251642 | 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 640319. 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.







