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Flensburg, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Flensburg City. It lies in ZIP code area 56328. The Survey maps it on the Flensburg quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Flensburg within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Flensburg fell from 225 to 216 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
2010225
2020216-9 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Flensburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 971 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use17 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Flensburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Eilers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flensburg in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 8 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2001Tornado (F2)Flensburg$200,000One home lost its roof. Several sheds and outbuildings blown down. Two additional homes sustained minor damage.
August 2005HailFlensburg-Dime sized hail fell in Section 11 of Culdrum Township.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Flensburg-The third tornado in a series crossed mostly open meadows and fields, only occasionally knocking down a few trees. This tornado was associated with the storm that produced downburst damage from 1510 to 1520 from 6 W Randall to Sobieski.
June 1997HailFlensburg-Some crop damage.
June 2002HailFlensburg-no account filed
August 2001HailFlensburg-no account filed
July 2000HailFlensburg-no account filed
June 1999HailFlensburg-no account filed
June 1997HailFlensburg-no account filed
July 1996HailFlensburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Sobieski4.5 miles12
Swanville6.5 miles10
Elmdale8.7 miles11
Maple Leaf Court8.8 miles12
Little Falls9.3 miles12
Randall9.5 miles12
Gregory9.5 miles12
Upsala10.2 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 FlensburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012323The 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 643739. 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.