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Chisholm, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Chisholm City. It lies in ZIP code area 55719. The Survey maps it on the Hibbing quadrangle. 4,775 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,535 feet above sea level.

Chisholm within St. Louis County

On record in Chisholm

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

Chisholm fell from 4,976 to 4,775 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
20104,976
20204,775-201 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Chisholm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,344 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 260 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/incendiarism260
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 205 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 205 workings within 5 miles of Chisholm: 154 past producers, 28 producers, 20 prospects, 2 plants. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Albany MineIron, Water, Free, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, AluminumPast Producer1903
Billings MineIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1919
Bruce MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Silica, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1927
Dunwoody MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, SilicaPast Producer1917
Fraser MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, ManganesePast Producer1928
Hibbing Taconite MineIron, SilicaProducer1976
Hibtac Pit & MillGraniteProducer
Niagra No.1 Reserve St-11Iron, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Aluminum, ManganeseProspect
NilesAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProducer1913, 1942
South Tener MineIron, Silica, Water, Free, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, AluminumPast Producer1928

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chisholm in 18 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 WindChisholm-Multiple healthy large tree branches were down and one tree trunk snapped within a couple blocks radius.
June 2024HailChisholm-Holes in rain gutters and dents in a car suggest larger hail to perhaps 3 inches may have occurred.
June 2024Flash FloodChisholm-Significant curb to curb street flooding was reported across Chisholm.
June 2024Flash FloodChisholm-Water was quickly pooling on streets, parking lots and yards.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChisholm-Trees and powerlines were blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2003HailChisholm-Hail covered the road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindChisholm-Several large trees were blown down. Also, a large tree fell on a garage in Hibbing.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindChisholm-The winds brought down trees and damaged homes on the northwest side of town to about Lake Street. The damage was mainly to windows, chimneys, and screen doors.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindChisholm-Severe thunderstorms with strong winds were prevalent mainly north and east of Virginia. Two thousand Lake Country Power customers lost power.
June 2024HailChisholm-no account filed
June 2024HailChisholm-no account filed
June 2024HailChisholm-no account filed
June 2024HailChisholm-no account filed
June 2024HailChisholm-no account filed
May 2022HailChisholm-no account filed
May 2022HailChisholm-no account filed
August 2020HailChisholm-no account filed
July 2003HailChisholm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Saint Clair Junction2.4 miles13
Kitzville2.7 miles14
Dunwoody Junction2.7 miles13
Mitchell3.1 miles14
Redore3.2 miles14
Lavinia3.5 miles14
Brooklyn3.9 miles14
Ruby Junction4.2 miles14

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 ChisholmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2333965The 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 660998. 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.