Effie, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Effie City. It lies in ZIP code area 56639. The Survey maps it on the Effie quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEffie fell from 123 to 109 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 | 123 | |
| 2020 | 109 | -14 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Effie quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Effie between 1993 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Effie in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 hail, 2 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Effie | $500 | Two large wooden outhouses were blown over by the winds at the North Star Rodeo grounds north of Effie. One of the outhouses was completely destroyed while the other remained intact. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Effie | - | The wind lasted one minute. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Effie | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Effie | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bigfork | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Marcell | 17.2 miles | 10 | |
| Talmoon | 18.0 miles | 9 | |
| Spring Lake | 18.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wirt | 18.4 miles | 10 | |
| Pomroy | 18.6 miles | 11 | |
| Jessie Lake | 18.9 miles | 9 | |
| Alder | 19.5 miles | 10 |
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 Effie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230849 | 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 656123. 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.





