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Deer River, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Deer River City. It lies in ZIP code area 56636. It stands on Deer River. The Survey maps it on the Deer River quadrangle. 909 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Deer River within Itasca County

On record in Deer River

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Deer River fell from 930 to 909 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
2010930
2020909-21 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Deer River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 454 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Smoking2
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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1996Natural2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer River in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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 1995Thunderstorm WindDeer River$20,000Thunderstorm winds took off roofs, blew out windows, and pushed a truck down the street.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDeer River$15,000Signs and trees were blown down, windows were blown out, and a car overturned by very strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Deer River-A tornado produced a path of damage through the city of Deer River, with damage to numerous homes and businesses. The tornado likely began somewhere just south of Highway 2, though a precise location was difficult to determine due to a lack of |damage. The first damage observed was a camper/RV that was in a parking lot south of Highway 2 which was tossed across the highway into the parking lot of a furniture store building just north of the highway. The furniture store building had all of its south |facing windows blown out with damage to the front facade and some evidence of roof lift on the flat portion of the roof. The building also lost part of a gabled metal roof. A metal shed/outbuilding in the parking lot was completely destroyed. To the north, a two story building that includes a funeral home and post office had evidence of roof lift. Continuing north through the residential streets numerous trees were downed and several outbuildings - sheds and garage buildings - sustained significant damage, with some collapsing and others sliding off their foundations. This damage continued north- northwest, crossing state highway 6 around 7th Ave. Damage to the ball fields north of|town are believed to be part of the tornados path, with a small outbuilding and dugouts being destroyed and damage sustained to the metal chain link fence. Tree damage continued onto private property to the northwest, with the end of the tornado path estimated to be near or just south of County Road 142. Peak winds were estimated to be 107 mph.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDeer River-A few trees were downed in Deer River.
July 2018Flash FloodDeer River-Water covered the road at the intersection of US Highway 2 and Minnesota Highway 6 in Deer River.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Widespread wind damage occurred.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDeer River-A large basswood tree with a trunk diamter of twenty inches was blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2004LightningDeer River-A tree exploded after being struck by lightning in rural Deer River. Debris from the tree broke windows and damaged siding to a home.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Power lines were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Tops of trees were snapped off.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Large tree branches were blown down 2 miles north of Day Lake.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Trees were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDeer River-Trees up to 10 inches in diameter were blown down on State Highway 46.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDeer River-no account filed
July 2002HailDeer River-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDeer River-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDeer River-no account filed
June 1999HailDeer River-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDeer River-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDeer River-no account filed
May 1998HailDeer River-no account filed
May 1998HailDeer River-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindDeer River-no account filed
May 1996HailDeer River-no account filed
May 1996HailDeer River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Zemple0.8 miles9
Ball Club7.6 miles9
Bass Brook10.1 miles10
Cohasset10.3 miles10
Suomi10.7 miles10
Bass Brook Court10.9 miles10
Lakeview Terrace13.2 miles11
Bowstring14.5 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 RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2190122The 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 655967. 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.

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.