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Floodwood, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Floodwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 55736. It stands on Floodwood River. The Survey maps it on the Floodwood quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Floodwood within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Floodwood fell from 528 to 517 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
2010528
2020517-11 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Floodwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
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
3 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1992Missing 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Floodwood: 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
Trugg Marks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floodwood in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 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 WindFloodwood$30,000Numerous large trees were uprooted and blown on to houses and garages. A mobile home was overturned, and the roof was blown off a barn. For the third morning in a row, a large complex of severe thunderstorms formed over the western Dakotas in the evening and moved into northeast Minnesota early the following morning. This time, the path of the squall line was a little farther south than the previous day. Brainerd received three-quarters inch diameter hail, otherwise, damaging winds were again the primary feature of this system. Some structural damage occurred, due either directly to the wind or to falling trees. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources estimated nearly 200,000 acres of timber were destroyed by the storms of July 13 and 14. The estimate was based partly on aerial photography. The area of downed trees extended from west of Itasca State Park in Clearwater County, through Hubbard, Cass, and Itasca Counties, across the south half of St. Louis County. The DNR estimated that 6.5 million trees more than 35 feet high were tipped over, broken off, or knocked flat. The value of the timber lost or damaged was estimated at $22.5 million.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-A mature hardwood tree was blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Many hard and softwood trees were snapped with some trees on powerlines on Highway 8.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Tree branches were down and a tree downed a powerline onto a nearby resident's deck.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-A few trees were down on a parking lot. A few poplar tree tops were snapped as well.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-A tree was down on a powerline with both lying across Highway 8.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-A tree was down on Highway 73 near mile marker 46.
June 2024Flash FloodFloodwood-A few streets in Floodwood were covered with water and closed.
May 2022Flash FloodFloodwood-A local TV meteorologist forwarded photos from a viewer showing a culvert that had washed out on Hill Road near Floodwood. There was a roughly 6 foot gap in the road that was at least 3 to 4 feet deep where the flow of the creek exceeded the capacity of the culvert and washed out the road. The viewers that sent the photos were unable to leave their property by vehicle and had to make a makeshift footbridge to get to town.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Several trees were damaged, split, or uprooted at the reporter's location.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-There were many trees blown down, including some that were uprooted.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Trees were blown down. One tree was 12 inches in diameter.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Trees were blown down.
June 2012Flash FloodFloodwood-The St. Louis River and Floodwood River flooded many streets in Floodwood. Law Enforcement ordered the evacuation of several houses on 4th and 5th Avenues.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-There was widespread severe wind damage to trees.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Numerous trees were blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007HailFloodwood-The hail caused minor crop damage.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Trees were blown down.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Many trees were blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-Large trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
July 2023HailFloodwood-no account filed
May 2022HailFloodwood-no account filed
May 2022HailFloodwood-no account filed
May 2022HailFloodwood-no account filed
May 2014HailFloodwood-no account filed
August 2008HailFloodwood-no account filed
April 2004HailFloodwood-no account filed
August 2002HailFloodwood-no account filed
June 2001HailFloodwood-no account filed
August 2000HailFloodwood-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFloodwood-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
Gowan5.9 miles7
Island6.3 miles6
Hartley Spur7.3 miles6
Paupores9.1 miles7
Meadowlands14.0 miles10
Elmer14.2 miles8
Arlberg16.2 miles7
Prosit16.7 miles7

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 FloodwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q513404The 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 661287. 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.