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Grand Marais, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Grand Marais City. It lies in ZIP code area 55604. The Survey maps it on the Grand Marais quadrangle. 1,337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Grand Marais within Cook County

On record in Grand Marais

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Grand Marais fell from 1,351 to 1,337 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
20101,351
20201,337-14 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Grand Marais between 1995 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
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
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestLITTLE DEVIL
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSuperior National ForestHUMPHREY
6 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestSAGUS LAKE
3 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSuperior National ForestPILE #2
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior National ForestMILL
14 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestMERIDIAN
12 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestPINCUSHION FIRE
30 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior National ForestTOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grand Marais: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Johnson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Marais in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
August 1996LightningGrand Marais1 killed, 1 hurtno account filed
May 2006HailGrand Marais-The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindGrand Marais-Numerous trees were blown down three miles north of the Gunflint Lodge.
June 2004LightningGrand Marais-A lightning strike caused a cabin to catch fire.
July 2003HailGrand Marais-The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGrand Marais-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGrand Marais-no account filed
May 1998HailGrand Marais-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Marais-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Marais-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Marais-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Chippewa City1.8 miles9
Croftville3.3 miles9
Maple Hill4.2 miles9
Covill9.7 miles10
Lutsen19.4 miles11
Hovland20.1 miles11
Tofte29.3 miles11
Schroeder32.8 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 Grand MaraisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1916460The 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 656425. 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.