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Carlos, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carlos City. It lies in ZIP code area 56319. The Survey maps it on the Alexandria East quadrangle. 497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Carlos within Douglas County

On record in Carlos

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Carlos fell from 502 to 497 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
2010502
2020497-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Carlos between 1993 and 2010, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning11
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning28 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carlos: 2 producers. 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
R & R MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wonderlake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlos in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 WindCarlos$5,000Several trees were blown down in Carlos, with damage to a garage door.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCarlos-A few large tree branches were blown down near Carlos.
June 2018HailCarlos-The local park ranger reported nickel size hail for approximately 3 minutes northwest of Carlos.
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Carlos-Hundreds of trees were uprooted or broken near Lake Carlos. Some trees fell on power lines. No structural damage was noted or reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCarlos-Several large tree branches were blown down in Carlos.
August 2010HailCarlos-Winds were estimated around 45 mph, along with dime size hail and 1.18 inches of rainfall.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCarlos-Trees down.
August 2007HailCarlos-Hail was reported at Lake Carlos State Park.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlos-Few trees downed at Lake Carlos State Park. This was the first report from a complex of storms that would enter Todd and Morrison Counties, and which produced the tornado 4 ESE Long Prairie at 1355. The last report from this batch of storms was in Morrison County at 1430.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlos-Tree down, slight damage to home.
June 2012HailCarlos-no account filed
July 2008HailCarlos-no account filed
August 2007HailCarlos-no account filed
August 2005HailCarlos-no account filed
June 2003HailCarlos-no account filed
August 2002HailCarlos-no account filed
June 1998HailCarlos-no account filed
October 1996HailCarlos-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudCarlos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Belle River3.6 miles9
Miltona4.9 miles9
Hiview Park5.4 miles11
Nelson5.9 miles11
Alexandria7.5 miles9
Spruce Center7.7 miles9
Rose City9.8 miles9
Leaf Valley10.3 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 CarlosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1823077The 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 640899. 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.