Fort Ripley, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fort Ripley City. It lies in ZIP code area 56449. It stands on Nokasippi River. The Survey maps it on the Fort Ripley quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFort Ripley grew from 69 to 84 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 | 69 | |
| 2020 | 84 | +15 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1948 USGS Belle Prairie quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Belle Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Fort Ripley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 362 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.7 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 June 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 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 Fort Ripley: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 21 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Willcuts Reserve H-47 | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Willcuts Reserve H-47 | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | Hematite, Magnetite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lennox | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Mathias | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Crow Wing | 8.6 miles | 18 | |
| Barrows | 10.9 miles | 18 | |
| Baxter | 12.8 miles | 18 | |
| Shephard | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Brainerd | 15.7 miles | 15 | |
| Meadow View Manor | 15.8 miles | 15 |
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 Fort Ripley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231869 | 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 643824. 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.







