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Cloquet, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Cloquet City. It lies in ZIP code area 55720. It lies near Dunlap Island. The Survey maps it on the Cloquet quadrangle. 12,568 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

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Cloquet within Carlton County

On record in Cloquet

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cloquet grew from 12,124 to 12,568 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
201012,124
202012,568+444 (+4%)

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

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Cloquet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 56 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 burning103
Arson/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony21
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Smoking14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural4
Fireworks3
Other causes3

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
2 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cloquet: 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 Sand BedSilicaOccurrence
Bush PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
G N Lindsay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Koski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scanlon Pit and ShopSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tompson Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

49 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloquet in 49 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 29 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 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
June 2002LightningCloquet$500,000no account filed
August 2007LightningCloquet$120,000A lightning bolt caused considerable roof and structural damage to the Queen of Peace Catholic Church. Damage to the electrical, phone, and public address system was also noted.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCloquet$4,000Power lines and trees were blown down in and around Cloquet. Many small tree limbs were also blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCloquet$2,000Trees were blown down in and around Cloquet, including a 40-foot pine tree.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCloquet$2,000Large trees were blown down near Big Lake.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCloquet$2,000The top of a spruce tree was snapped off, four large basswood trees were blown down, and a couple of tent poles were broken. The damage occurred near Big Lake.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCloquet$500A 12-inch diameter tree was blown down across a road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCloquet-A large, healthy tee was down on the north side of Cloquet onto a fence causing damage to the fence.
June 2019Flash FloodCloquet-The southbound lanes of Minnesota Highway 33 1.5 miles north of Cloquet were beginning to flood and traffic was having to slow to navigate the water on the road.
September 2018Flash FloodCloquet-Storm sewer manhole covers were flipped over. Standing water was also reported in town.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCloquet-A 12 to 18 inch diameter tree branch was knocked down partially blocking Grant Avenue.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCloquet-There were numerous trees blown down across Cloquet, which was reported from a retired NWS employee.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCloquet-Trees were blown down and power outages were reported near the Black Bear Casino.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCloquet-The severe thunderstorm winds occurred at the intersection of Interstate 35 and Highway 210.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCloquet-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2003HailCloquet-The hail was one inch in diameter 3 miles west of Cloquet.
May 2022HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2022HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2022HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2022HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2022HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2022HailCloquet-no account filed
April 2021HailCloquet-no account filed
April 2021HailCloquet-no account filed
September 2021HailCloquet-no account filed
August 2018HailCloquet-no account filed
June 2018HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2017HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2017HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2012FloodCloquet-no account filed
May 2012HailCloquet-no account filed
July 2010HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2009HailCloquet-no account filed
August 2008HailCloquet-no account filed
June 2007HailCloquet-no account filed
July 2006HailCloquet-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCloquet-no account filed
July 2003HailCloquet-no account filed
September 2002HailCloquet-no account filed
May 2001HailCloquet-no account filed
August 2001HailCloquet-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCloquet-no account filed
August 2000HailCloquet-no account filed
August 2000HailCloquet-no account filed
August 2000HailCloquet-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCloquet-no account filed
August 1997HailCloquet-no account filed
July 1997HailCloquet-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCloquet-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
Scanlon1.9 miles9
Carlton4.4 miles9
Thomson5.2 miles9
Esko5.2 miles9
Iverson5.3 miles8
Harney6.7 miles9
Brownell7.1 miles9
Big Lake Chapel7.3 miles8

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 CloquetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q859290The 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 641345. 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.