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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.

Carlton within Carlton County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Carlton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010862
2020948+86 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

266 since 1992

Regional 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 burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use32
Smoking15
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carlton County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Carlton County Sand BedSilicaOccurrence
Bush PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cherrie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
G N Lindsay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Koski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scanlon Pit and ShopSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson Twp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tompson Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012FloodCarlton$3,000,000Flooding 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 2022Thunderstorm WindCarlton-Winds lofted a trampoline across the yard and over a pool.
June 2016HailCarlton-There was half dollar sized hail covering the ground with many golf ball sized hail stones.
June 2012Flash FloodCarlton-The center of town was under 1.5 to 2 feet of water due to the flooding of the St. Louis River.
May 2012HailCarlton-The hail covered the ground.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCarlton-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down from southern Carlton County to Cloquet.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCarlton-Many trees were blown down, including a large tree that blocked a highway.
May 2012HailCarlton-no account filed
May 2012HailCarlton-no account filed
May 2011HailCarlton-no account filed
July 2006HailCarlton-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlton-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Thomson1.4 miles9
Scanlon3.0 miles9
Alford3.1 miles9
Wrenshall3.9 miles8
Esko4.4 miles9
Cloquet4.4 miles9
Scotts Corner4.5 miles8
Brownell4.7 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 CarltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1986227The 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.