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.
Population over time
2 figuresEmily 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 813 | |
| 2020 | 843 | +30 (+4%) |
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.
- 1913 USGS Cuyuna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Cuyuna quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Emily quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Aitkin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
103 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2003 | 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
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Shawmut Res East | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Emily Shawmut Res- West | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Emily-Shawmut Reserve P-27 | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | Hematite, Magnetite |
Storms near this place
23 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | Several small trees were down at the golf course in Emily. Course had a lot of standing water as well. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | County dispatch received a report of a tree down on powerlines near Pine Ridge cemetery in Emily. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | An eighteen inch diameter tree blocked the road with a power pole snapped as well. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | A tree was downed across Highway 1. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | Many trees were snapped at a point 20 to 30 feet off the ground. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | Many trees and power lines were blown down by the storm. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Emily | - | The Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office reported a stretch of County Road 105 near Thompson Lake was closed due to flooding. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Emily | - | The hail lasted 3 minutes and completely covered the ground. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | There were 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches down near Emily, MN. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emily | - | Large trees were blown down. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Emily | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Emily | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Pine | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Fifty Lakes | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Manhattan Beach | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Cross Lake | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mission | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| Swanburg | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Wolford | 12.9 miles | 10 | |
| Manganese | 14.3 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 Emily | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230773 | 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 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.





