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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.

Bock within Mille Lacs County

Population over time

2 figures

Bock 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.

YearPeople Change
2010106
202078-28 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

150 since 1992

Regional 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 burning69
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mille Lacs 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Smith Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mille Lacs County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBock-Large trees were blown down, some over one foot in diameter, between Milaca and Bock.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBock-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 2011Tornado (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 2008HailBock-no account filed
July 2000HailBock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mille Lacs 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
Milaca5.5 miles10
Woodward Brook7.7 miles10
Pease7.7 miles11
Foreston8.9 miles11
Page9.1 miles11
Brickton12.5 miles11
Estes Brook13.4 miles11
Princeton14.9 miles11

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 BockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2251642The 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.