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Grey Eagle, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grey Eagle City. It lies in ZIP code area 56336. The Survey maps it on the Burtrum quadrangle. 330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Grey Eagle within Todd County

On record in Grey Eagle

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

Grey Eagle fell from 348 to 330 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
2010348
2020330-18 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Grey Eagle between 1992 and 2018, burning about 395 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2006Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grey Eagle in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-Video on social media showing full size pine trees snapped in half.
August 2024HailGrey Eagle-Photo measurement provided via social media.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-Photos shared via social media of large tree uprooted.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-Trees down near Buckhead Lake.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-A two mile long swath of tree damage occurred near Grey Eagle. Several of the trees were blocking roads. Power was out in Grey Eagle.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-Estimated Winds, large branches down.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-Trees blown down. Several roofs blown off. Estimated windspeed.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-12 large trees blown down. Trailer homes damaged. Docks destroyed.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGrey Eagle-Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2022HailGrey Eagle-no account filed
April 2005HailGrey Eagle-no account filed
August 2001HailGrey Eagle-no account filed
August 1999HailGrey Eagle-no account filed
July 1999HailGrey Eagle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
North Shore1.6 miles10
Pleasant Beach3.3 miles10
Ward Springs3.9 miles8
Burtrum4.4 miles10
Spaulding6.6 miles8
Pillsbury8.2 miles10
Round Prairie9.2 miles8
Little Sauk9.5 miles8

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 Grey EagleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1005688The 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 644480. 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.