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Cuyuna, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cuyuna City. It lies in ZIP code area 56444. The Survey maps it on the Cuyuna quadrangle. 296 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Cuyuna within Crow Wing County

On record in Cuyuna

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cuyuna fell from 332 to 296 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
2010332
2020296-36 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Cuyuna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 508 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony15
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking1
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
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 118 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 118 workings within 5 miles of Cuyuna: 102 past producers, 11 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Limestone, General. 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
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 15Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Algoma-Zeno MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1904, 1915
Northland MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Algoma MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alstead MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alstead-North Hillcrest MineManganesePast Producer1955
Arko MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Armour No.2 MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1912
Armour Number 1 MineManganesePast Producer1955
Armour Number 2 MineManganesePast Producer1955

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

3 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuyuna in 3 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindCuyuna-A photo was received showing large trees snapped and uprooted on the north side of Rabbit Lake.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindCuyuna-A report of several large oak trees blown down was received via social media.
June 2024HailCuyuna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Crosby3.0 miles11
Deerwood3.3 miles11
Armour Number Two Mine3.3 miles11
Crosby Beach3.4 miles11
Wolford3.6 miles10
Ironton4.0 miles11
Oreland4.6 miles11
Manganese4.7 miles10

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 CuyunaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232144The 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 642570. 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.