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Eveleth, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Eveleth City. It lies in ZIP code area 55734. The Survey maps it on the Eveleth quadrangle. 3,493 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,591 feet above sea level.

Eveleth within St. Louis County

On record in Eveleth

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Eveleth fell from 3,718 to 3,493 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
20103,718
20203,493-225 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Eveleth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 560 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 92 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
Arson/incendiarism92
Debris and open burning63
Railroad operations and maintenance52
Equipment and vehicle use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance71 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesJUNCTION 101 FIRE
26 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 116 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 116 workings within 5 miles of Eveleth: 95 past producers, 17 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Auburn & Great Western MinesIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1894
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Security MineIron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1961
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Rouchleau GroupIron, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aad MineIronPast Producer1904
Alberta MineIronPast Producer1907

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eveleth in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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 1995Thunderstorm WindEveleth$6,000Thunderstorm winds from 61 to 70 kts (70-80 mph) tipped over boats and caused power outages.
June 2025Flash FloodEveleth-Water was over Old Highway 53 along with a minor washout of road surface. Highway 53 was being routed down Old Highway 53. Highway 53 was not only flooded over but the current was so strong coming down that hill that car tires were slipping.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEveleth-A large willow tree was down over a road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Power lines were down along Routes 53 and 37.
August 2011HailEveleth-Hail covered the ground.
May 2011HailEveleth-Hail was measured to be 13-20mm in diameter, or 0.51 to 0.79 inches in diameter. The hail lasted about 3 minutes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Shingles were blown off a roof.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Trees were blown down on County Highway 25
June 2002HailEveleth-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEveleth-no account filed
June 1996HailEveleth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Snowden0.7 miles12
Genoa1.7 miles12
Leonidas1.7 miles12
Largo2.0 miles12
De Forest2.1 miles12
Midway2.1 miles12
Rainy Junction2.5 miles12
Spruce2.7 miles12

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 EvelethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1000217The 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 661233. 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.