Buckman, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buckman City. It lies in ZIP code area 56364. The Survey maps it on the Pierz quadrangle. 307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBuckman grew from 270 to 307 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 | 270 | |
| 2020 | 307 | +37 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Buckman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,041 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 69 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/incendiarism | 69 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckman in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckman | $10,000 | Numerous trees uprooted. Garage flattened. Granary unroofed. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Buckman | - | Mostly dime to penny size hail. Damage to vinyl siding on homes just South of Buckman. |
| August 2005 | Heavy Rain | Buckman | - | A total of 5.6 inches of rain was recorded between 6 PM on the 16th and 3 AM on the 17th. Minor flooding was reported in town. |
| October 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Buckman | - | A tornado touched down and damaged a farm field along 260th Avenue in Buckman Township. It moved to the northeast and remained on the ground for 1.5 miles before lifting at 73rd Street. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckman | - | Numerous trees down. Siding ripped off house. Estimated windspeed. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Buckman | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Buckman | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Buckman | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Buckman | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Buckman | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Buckman | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckman | - | 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.
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 Buckman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346604 | 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 640594. 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.
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.






