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Elmdale, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elmdale City. It lies in ZIP code area 56314. It stands on Elmdale Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowlus quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Elmdale within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Elmdale fell from 116 to 114 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
2010116
2020114-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Elmdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 662 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmdale in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindElmdale-Tree toppled and brushed against house.
July 2009HailElmdale-no account filed
July 1999HailElmdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Upsala4.5 miles10
Bowlus4.5 miles11
Sobieski6.5 miles12
North Prairie7.9 miles11
Flensburg8.7 miles12
Swanville9.6 miles10
Gregory10.3 miles12
Royalton10.5 miles11

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 ElmdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q578017The 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 643306. 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.