Deerwood, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deerwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 56444. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle. 526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.
On record in Deerwood
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
Deerwood Auditoriumlisted 1995- Elevated Metal Water Tank, Deerwoodlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresDeerwood fell from 532 to 526 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 | 532 | |
| 2020 | 526 | -6 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1912 USGS Deerwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1914 USGS Deerwood quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mille Lacs Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
164 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Deerwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 burning | 71 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 65 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Deerwood: 57 past producers, 6 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage Lake Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Range Redi Mix Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Adams Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Armour No.2 Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | 1912 | |
| Armour Number 1 Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Armour Number 2 Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Bonnie Bell Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Croft Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1934 | |
| Crow Wing Reserve | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Federal Reserve | Iron, Manganese | Prospect |
Storms near this place
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerwood in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | A tree was downed onto a garage. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Deerwood | - | There was video of the falling hail up to the size of quarters. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | Trees were down and blocking Highway 6. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down small trees with the diameter of about a softball. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oreland | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Crosby Beach | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Crosby | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Cuyuna | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Armour Number Two Mine | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Klondyke | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Ironton | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bay Lake | 4.6 miles | 11 |
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 Deerwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231858 | 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 642741. 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.





