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Emily, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Emily City. It lies in ZIP code area 56447. The Survey maps it on the Emily quadrangle. 843 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Emily within Crow Wing County

Population over time

2 figures

Emily grew from 813 to 843 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
2010813
2020843+30 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Emily between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Emily: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Emily Shawmut Res EastIron, ManganeseProspect
Emily Shawmut Res- WestIron, ManganeseProspect
Emily-Shawmut Reserve P-27Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emily in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindEmily-Several small trees were down at the golf course in Emily. Course had a lot of standing water as well.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEmily-County dispatch received a report of a tree down on powerlines near Pine Ridge cemetery in Emily.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEmily-An eighteen inch diameter tree blocked the road with a power pole snapped as well.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEmily-A tree was downed across Highway 1.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEmily-Many trees were snapped at a point 20 to 30 feet off the ground.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEmily-Many trees and power lines were blown down by the storm.
July 2016Flash FloodEmily-The Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office reported a stretch of County Road 105 near Thompson Lake was closed due to flooding.
September 2015HailEmily-The hail lasted 3 minutes and completely covered the ground.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindEmily-There were 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches down near Emily, MN.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEmily-Large trees were blown down.
April 2025HailEmily-no account filed
July 2023HailEmily-no account filed
June 2011HailEmily-no account filed
June 2011HailEmily-no account filed
June 2011HailEmily-no account filed
June 2011HailEmily-no account filed
June 2011HailEmily-no account filed
May 2010HailEmily-no account filed
July 2010HailEmily-no account filed
May 2006HailEmily-no account filed
May 2001HailEmily-no account filed
August 2000HailEmily-no account filed
June 1998HailEmily-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Little Pine5.2 miles10
Fifty Lakes7.2 miles11
Manhattan Beach9.4 miles10
Cross Lake9.6 miles11
Mission11.0 miles10
Swanburg11.5 miles10
Wolford12.9 miles10
Manganese14.3 miles10

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 EmilyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230773The 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 656158. 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.