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Bovey, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bovey City. It lies in ZIP code area 55709. The Survey maps it on the Bovey quadrangle. 829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Bovey within Itasca County

On record in Bovey

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bovey grew from 804 to 829 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
2010804
2020829+25 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Bovey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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/incendiarism45
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2003Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Bovey: 40 past producers, 21 producers, 11 prospects, 2 occurrences. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Limestone, General. 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
Buckeye MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, SilicaPast Producer1943
Fargo Reserve H-5Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, SilicaProspect
Holman-Cliffs MineIron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, AluminumPast Producer1907
Bovey-Delaittre Reserve H-27Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Hill Lake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Homestead 0-68 ReserveAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Itasca County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Itasca County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Plummer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
U.S. Steel Reserve O-69Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovey in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2024Flash FloodBovey-Flooding was reported on the north side of Coleraine.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBovey-An eight inch diameter pine tree was snapped about five feet above the ground level.
July 2021HailBovey-A few small branches were downed as well.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBovey-A tree fell onto a home and took down a power line.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBovey-Many trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2011Heavy RainBovey-Rainfall was measured at 2.15 inches.
July 2011Heavy RainBovey-Rainfall was measured at 2.15 inches.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBovey-Trees were blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBovey-Large trees were broken and limbs were blown down.
June 2024HailBovey-no account filed
May 2022HailBovey-no account filed
June 2018HailBovey-no account filed
June 2016HailBovey-no account filed
July 2008HailBovey-no account filed
July 2003HailBovey-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBovey-no account filed
July 1999HailBovey-no account filed
June 1999HailBovey-no account filed
July 1995HailBovey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Coleraine0.7 miles12
Canisteo1.9 miles12
Taconite2.3 miles12
Holman2.7 miles10
La Prairie5.9 miles9
Silverwood6.0 miles10
Gunn6.2 miles9
Marble6.6 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 BoveyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346815The 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 655489. 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.