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Buhl, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Great Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55713. The Survey maps it on the Buhl quadrangle. 952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,526 feet above sea level.

Buhl within St. Louis County

On record in Buhl

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

Buhl fell from 1,000 to 952 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
20101,000
2020952-48 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Buhl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 625 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 80 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/incendiarism80
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 165 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 165 workings within 5 miles of Buhl: 129 past producers, 23 producers, 12 prospects, 1 unknown. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Billings MineIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1919
Bruce MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Silica, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1927
Dunwoody MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, SilicaPast Producer1917
Fraser MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, ManganesePast Producer1928
Hibtac Pit & MillGraniteProducer
Midway No.2 MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreePast Producer
NilesAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProducer1913, 1942
Sharon MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1902
Wabigon & Wabigon No.2 MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1925
State Road No 66 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buhl in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBuhl1 hurtA tree fell at a campground on Stubler Lake landing on a tent and injuring a 7 year old boy.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBuhl$10,000Several large trees were blown down. One car was crushed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBuhl-Four inch diameter trees were snapped by strong thunderstorm winds.
March 2016HailBuhl-Photos from Buhl showed several large stones.
May 2009HailBuhl-Dime to quarter size hail fell.
June 2024HailBuhl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Grant1.0 miles13
Lucknow2.3 miles14
Kinney2.9 miles14
Scott3.1 miles13
Sherwood3.5 miles14
Saint Clair Junction3.9 miles13
Wilpen4.5 miles13
Dunwoody Junction5.5 miles13

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 BuhlAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1891771The 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 660903. 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.