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Gilman, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Gilman City. It lies in ZIP code area 56329. The Survey maps it on the Foley quadrangle. 226 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Gilman within Benton County

On record in Gilman

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gilman grew from 224 to 226 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
2010224
2020226+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 Gilman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,254 acres in total. None started naturally. 73 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 burning90
Arson/incendiarism73
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1992Debris and open burning60 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilman in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGilman$200,000A barn was blown down near Gilman. In addition, numerous trees were blown down around the area.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGilman$50,000Roof off barn, two sheds down.
May 2022Funnel CloudGilman-Two separate groups of storm chasers photographed a funnel cloud. Neither photo showed any ground contact, and no damage was reported. There were no reliable spotter reports of it touching down, so this has been documented as a funnel cloud.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGilman-A wind gust of 81 mph was measured in the city of Gilman, Minnesota.
August 2006HailGilman-Observed at intersection of highway 14 and 65.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGilman-Numerous trees down. Outbuildings down.
June 2020HailGilman-no account filed
August 2018HailGilman-no account filed
May 2012HailGilman-no account filed
July 2010HailGilman-no account filed
August 2007HailGilman-no account filed
June 2002HailGilman-no account filed
July 2002HailGilman-no account filed
September 2002HailGilman-no account filed
June 1997HailGilman-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGilman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Jakeville2.2 miles11
North Benton3.1 miles11
Foley5.3 miles11
Brennyville5.6 miles11
Ronneby5.8 miles10
Popple Creek6.4 miles11
Fruitville7.1 miles11
Parent7.4 miles11

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 GilmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2208827The 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 644148. 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.