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Boy River, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Boy River City. It lies in ZIP code area 56672. The Survey maps it on the Boy River quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Boy River within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Boy River fell from 47 to 26 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
201047
202026-21 (-45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Boy River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,012 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestBOY LAKE
31 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestCO-8 FIRE
7 May 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestPIKE BAY FIRE
6 May 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresChippewa National Forestnot named
5 May 2000Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresChippewa National ForestNEIGHBORHOOD FIRE
5 May 1996Arson/incendiarism1,242 acresChippewa National ForestBOY RIVER
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresChippewa National ForestEAST BOY RIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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 Boy River: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Cass County Peat DepositsPeatOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boy River in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindBoy River-Multiple trees were knocked down on County Road 63 in Boy River Township.
June 2025HailBoy River-no account filed
August 2022HailBoy River-no account filed
July 2018HailBoy River-no account filed
August 2013HailBoy River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Tobique5.7 miles11
Federal Dam7.1 miles9
Elevenmile Corner9.0 miles10
Brevik10.6 miles9
Bena12.7 miles9
Inguadona12.8 miles10
Remer13.4 miles10
Longville13.4 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 Boy RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2039312The 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 655504. 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.