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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.

Deer Creek within Otter Tail County

Population over time

2 figures

Deer 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.

YearPeople Change
2010322
2020330+8 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

95 words on this township

Otter 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 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2012Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2003Arson/incendiarism130 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLEAF RIVER FIRE
27 April 1992Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 October 1992Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Weniger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

19 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek$20,000The wind knocked down an eight inch diameter tree.
August 2023HailDeer Creek-Trained spotter reports quarter-sized hail 3 E Deer Creek.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. One mature tree was snapped in the yard.
June 2019HailDeer Creek-Hail fell along a stretch of county road 29 between Deer Creek and Wadena.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-Trees were blown down and gardens flattened.
June 2015HailDeer Creek-Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-The wind gust was measured by a mobile weather station.
July 2010Funnel CloudDeer Creek-A wall cloud with a funnel nearly half way down were viewed from Deer Creek.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-Several four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down around town.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-A large tree was blown down a mile north of Deer Creek.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDeer 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 2015Funnel CloudDeer Creek-no account filed
June 2014HailDeer Creek-no account filed
June 2014HailDeer Creek-no account filed
March 2004HailDeer Creek-no account filed
August 2004HailDeer Creek-no account filed
July 2000HailDeer Creek-no account filed
July 2000HailDeer Creek-no account filed
July 1999HailDeer Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Lyman5.2 miles9
Topelius (historical)6.4 miles9
Heinola6.4 miles9
Bluffton7.1 miles9
West Wind Estates7.1 miles9
Leaf City (historical)7.8 miles9
Henning8.1 miles9
New York Mills9.2 miles9

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2170425The 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.