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Calumet, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Greenway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55716. The Survey maps it on the Calumet quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.

Calumet within Itasca County

On record in Calumet

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

Calumet fell from 367 to 334 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
2010367
2020334-33 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Calumet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 940 acres in total. None started naturally. 100 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/incendiarism100
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2002Arson/incendiarism11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2008Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 76 workings within 5 miles of Calumet: 46 past producers, 20 producers, 10 prospects. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, 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
ArcturusIron, SilicaProducer1917
Patrick-Ann MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1917
West Diamond ReserveAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Delaware #1 & #2Iron, Water, FreePast Producer1913
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 23wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Hill Lake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plummer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Troumbly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allen Rossum Reserve H-8IronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Allen Rossum Reserve H-8IronProspect

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCalumet$20,000Multiple trees were uprooted and snapped at the location with at least one on a home and another on a vehicle per photos.
June 2025Flash FloodCalumet-Report of water over the roadway at the intersection of US-169 and Gary Street with the flooding receding as of midnight.
June 2024HailCalumet-A windshield was broken by the hail.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCalumet-A 2 foot diameter oak tree was blown down onto a trailer.
June 2010HailCalumet-The hail was covering the ground.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCalumet-A few trees were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCalumet-Eight inch diameter trees were blown down.
June 2024HailCalumet-no account filed
June 1998HailCalumet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Marble1.2 miles10
Cort1.7 miles11
Silverwood1.8 miles10
Jurgenson2.6 miles11
Pengilly4.3 miles11
Kevin4.8 miles11
Holman5.1 miles10
Cooley5.1 miles11

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 CalumetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346805The 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 655597. 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.