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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.

Fort Ripley within Crow Wing County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort 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.

YearPeople Change
201069
202084+15 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

75 since 1992

Regional 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking1

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
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.7 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 21Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganeseProspect
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Crow Wing 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
Lennox5.4 miles13
Saint Mathias7.0 miles13
Crow Wing8.6 miles18
Barrows10.9 miles18
Baxter12.8 miles18
Shephard14.0 miles12
Brainerd15.7 miles15
Meadow View Manor15.8 miles15

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 RipleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231869The 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.