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Braham, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Braham City. It lies in ZIP code area 55006. The Survey maps it on the Braham quadrangle. 1,769 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Braham within Isanti County

On record in Braham

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Braham fell from 1,793 to 1,769 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
20101,793
20201,769-24 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Braham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2013Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti 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 Braham: 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
Braham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Braham in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindBraham$50,000Several trees blew down near Braham, including damage to an outbuilding.
June 2001HailBraham$50,000Numerous cars, windows, roofs and siding damaged.
July 2018Heavy RainBraham-A measured rainfall report of 3.07 inches fell west near Braham in 24 hours.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBraham-A large tree was uprooted near Braham.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBraham-Eight inch diameter trees were downed onto Highway 107.
October 2004HailBraham-Hail larger than a golf ball damaged a vehicle. The time was estimated.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBraham-A few trees down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBraham-Tree fell on home.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBraham-Estimated winds, trees toppled.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBraham-Car blown into ditch. Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBraham-Large trees blown over. Estimated windspeed.
August 2023HailBraham-no account filed
May 2022HailBraham-no account filed
May 2011HailBraham-no account filed
August 2008HailBraham-no account filed
April 2004HailBraham-no account filed
April 2004HailBraham-no account filed
June 2002HailBraham-no account filed
July 2000HailBraham-no account filed
May 1994HailBraham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Andree2.8 miles11
Stanchfield3.5 miles11
Stanchfield Corner3.6 miles11
Grandy6.2 miles11
Elm Park6.6 miles12
Springvale9.6 miles12
Cambridge10.7 miles11
Day11.1 miles12

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 BrahamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q922449The 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 640423. 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.