Carlton, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Carlton City. It lies in ZIP code area 55718. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cloquet quadrangle. 948 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
On record in Carlton
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 5 records
Jay Cooke State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992
Carlton County Courthouselisted 1985
Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Groundslisted 1992
Henry C. Oldenburg Houselisted 2006- Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Service Yardlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresCarlton grew from 862 to 948 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 | 862 | |
| 2020 | 948 | +86 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Cloquet quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
266 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Carlton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 41 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 burning | 88 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Smoking | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Carlton: 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Carlton County Sand Bed | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Bush Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cherrie Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| G N Lindsay Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Koski Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Scanlon Pit and Shop | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Thompson Twp Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tompson Township Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Williams Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlton in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Flood | Carlton | $3,000,000 | Flooding of the St Louis River began at the Scanlon gage at 1:30 AM CST on June 20th when it reached a level of 10.50 feet. The St Louis River reached a record-breaking crest of 16.66 feet at 3 am CST on June 21. The St Louis River returned below its flood stage of 10.50 feet on June 28th at 10:00 AM CST. Businesses and a campground near the river were flooded. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | Winds lofted a trampoline across the yard and over a pool. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Carlton | - | There was half dollar sized hail covering the ground with many golf ball sized hail stones. |
| June 2012 | Flash Flood | Carlton | - | The center of town was under 1.5 to 2 feet of water due to the flooding of the St. Louis River. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Carlton | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down from southern Carlton County to Cloquet. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | Many trees were blown down, including a large tree that blocked a highway. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlton | - | 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 Carlton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1986227 | 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 640914. 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.



