Funkley, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Funkley City. It lies in ZIP code area 56630. The Survey maps it on the Funkley quadrangle. 18 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresFunkley grew from 15 to 18 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 5 | -10 (-67%) |
| 2020 | 18 | +13 (+260%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Bridgie quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Bridgie quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Funkley quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Funkley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 June 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 June 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2015 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Funkley in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Funkley | - | Tree branches and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Funkley | - | A few trees were blown down with pea size hail. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Funkley | - | A brief touchdown was observed by a person traveling northeast from Blackduck. Some minor tree damage was later noted. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Funkley | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Funkley | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Funkley | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
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.
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 Funkley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q784521 | 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 656344. 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.






