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Gilbert, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Gilbert City. It lies in ZIP code area 55741. The Survey maps it on the Gilbert quadrangle. 1,687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

Gilbert within St. Louis County

On record in Gilbert

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Gilbert fell from 1,799 to 1,687 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
20101,799
20201,687-112 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Gilbert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 453 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 59 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
Arson/incendiarism59
Equipment and vehicle use34
Debris and open burning34
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresMinnesota 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

10 of 159 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 159 workings within 5 miles of Gilbert: 128 past producers, 21 producers, 8 prospects, 1 occurrence. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Auburn & Great Western MinesIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1894
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Corsica MineIron, Aluminum, Silica, Manganese, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1901
Jl-47 Reserve Jl-47Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreeProspect
McKinley MineIron, SilicaProducer1907
Security MineIron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1961
Welton MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Rouchleau GroupIron, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbert in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGilbert-A tree was blown down in Gilbert.
August 2017HailGilbert-no account filed
July 2005HailGilbert-no account filed
April 2004HailGilbert-no account filed
August 1996HailGilbert-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
Sparta1.6 miles11
Elcor1.7 miles13
Genoa2.9 miles12
Midway3.2 miles12
McKinley3.3 miles13
Rainy Junction4.3 miles12
Eveleth4.4 miles12
Franklin4.4 miles16

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 GilbertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924495The 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 661356. 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.