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Burtrum, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Burnhamville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56318. The Survey maps it on the Burtrum quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Burtrum within Todd County

Population over time

2 figures

Burtrum fell from 144 to 123 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
2010144
2020123-21 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Burtrum between 1992 and 2013, burning about 1,003 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning28
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
2 July 2006Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd 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 Burtrum: 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
Loven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burtrum in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBurtrum-Multiple trees were down within town.
September 2017Tornado (EF1)Burtrum-A tornado touched down on the east side of Big Swan Lake, where a few trees were downed. As the tornado moved northeast, it hit a number of lake homes and cabins, causing roof damage to several. As the tornado reached the community of Pillsbury on the northeast side of Long Lake, a boat and attached dock were blown westward into the lake. Dozens of trees, including some two feet in diameter, were blown down or snapped. A home was shifted off its foundation by several inches. Another home sustained minor damage to the roof and had some windows blown in. The tornado continued beyond Pillsbury, moving across open fields and woods, and dissipated just as it reached the Todd/Morrison County line.
June 2020HailBurtrum-no account filed
May 1998HailBurtrum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Grey Eagle4.4 miles10
Pillsbury4.5 miles10
North Shore5.3 miles10
Pleasant Beach6.7 miles10
Ward Springs8.2 miles8
Spaulding10.9 miles8
Round Prairie10.9 miles8
Long Prairie12.1 miles9

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 BurtrumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2201743The 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 640690. 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.