Chickamaw Beach, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Chickamaw Beach City. It lies in ZIP code area 56474. The Survey maps it on the Pine River quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChickamaw Beach grew from 114 to 128 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 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 128 | +14 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
170 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Chickamaw Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chickamaw Beach in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Lightning | Chickamaw Beach | $155,000 | Lightning struck a house east of Pine River, MN the morning of July 28th. The lightning caused extensive damage. It hit three large white pines and the house. It scorched outlets and wires, and blew out sheet rock and light fixtures. There was also some fire damage. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Chickamaw Beach | - | There were nickel to quarter sized hail stones. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Chickamaw Beach | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine River | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Mildred | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Pontoria | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Backus | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Oshawa | 14.1 miles | 9 | |
| Graff | 14.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hackensack | 14.8 miles | 10 | |
| Wabedo | 16.1 miles | 10 |
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 Chickamaw Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2128870 | 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 641152. 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.
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.





