Ely, Minnesota

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 7 records

• Burntside Lodge Historic Districtlisted 1988
• Ely Community Centerlisted 2016
• Ely State Theaterlisted 2015
• Listening Pointlisted 2007
• Pioneer Mine Buildings and A Headframelisted 1978
• Tanner's Hospitallisted 1980
• Sigurd F. Olson Writing Shacklisted 2020

Ely fell from 3,460 to 3,268 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.

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.

• 1933 USGS Ely quadrangle1:62500
• 1939 USGS Ely quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Ely quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1994 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Ely between 1992 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Winton
• Burntside
• Peyla
• Wahlsten

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ely: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ely in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in St. Louis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661205. 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.