Deer Creek, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deer Creek City. It lies in ZIP code area 56527. The Survey maps it on the Deer Creek quadrangle. 330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDeer Creek grew from 322 to 330 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 | 322 | |
| 2020 | 330 | +8 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Deer Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
95 words on this townshipOtter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Deer Creek City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Deer Creek City - 95 words.
Fires near this place
6 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Deer Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 130 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | LEAF RIVER FIRE |
| 27 April 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 October 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deer Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weniger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Creek in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | $20,000 | The wind knocked down an eight inch diameter tree. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | Trained spotter reports quarter-sized hail 3 E Deer Creek. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. One mature tree was snapped in the yard. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | Hail fell along a stretch of county road 29 between Deer Creek and Wadena. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | - | Trees were blown down and gardens flattened. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | - | The wind gust was measured by a mobile weather station. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Deer Creek | - | A wall cloud with a funnel nearly half way down were viewed from Deer Creek. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | - | Several four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down around town. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | - | A large tree was blown down a mile north of Deer Creek. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | - | Large trees were uprooted and cracked. A garage was blown about a foot off its foundation. Metal siding was torn off and wrapped around a stop sign. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyman | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Topelius (historical) | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Heinola | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bluffton | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| West Wind Estates | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Leaf City (historical) | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Henning | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| New York Mills | 9.2 miles | 9 |
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 Deer Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2170425 | 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 642707. 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.





