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Federal Dam, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Federal Dam City. It lies in ZIP code area 56641. The Survey maps it on the Federal Dam quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.

Federal Dam within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Federal Dam grew from 110 to 123 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
2010110
2020123+13 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Federal Dam between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,901 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
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
6 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestSOO BRIDGE
18 August 2003Natural2.5 acresChippewa National ForestZION
11 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestNATURE TRAIL
27 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChippewa National ForestLEECH FIRE
25 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresChippewa National ForestSUGAR POINT
13 June 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChippewa National ForestDRUMBEATER CREEK
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National ForestLOG
8 May 1994Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresChippewa National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Federal Dam in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindFederal Dam-Multiple trees were down along a road ranging from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFederal Dam-A tree roughly 4 inches in diameter was snapped by the winds and fell onto a trailer.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFederal Dam-Several trees were blown down in Gould Township.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFederal Dam-Numerous trees were uprooted with some sheared off above the ground. The power was out through at least the following afternoon.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFederal Dam-Trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFederal Dam-Trees were blown down, including a 50 foot pine.
April 2025HailFederal Dam-no account filed
May 2023HailFederal Dam-no account filed
July 2023HailFederal Dam-no account filed
August 2022HailFederal Dam-no account filed
August 2022HailFederal Dam-no account filed
July 2021HailFederal Dam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Bena6.6 miles9
Boy River7.1 miles9
Ryan Village8.9 miles9
Brevik11.9 miles9
Tobique12.8 miles11
Schley13.8 miles9
Elevenmile Corner13.9 miles10
Bald Eagle Center15.4 miles9

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 Federal DamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231572The 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 656214. 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.