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Hermantown, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hermantown City. It lies in ZIP code area 55811. The Survey maps it on the Duluth Heights quadrangle. 10,221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Hermantown within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Hermantown grew from 9,414 to 10,221 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
20109,414
202010,221+807 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Hermantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning78
Railroad operations and maintenance50
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hermantown: 3 producers. 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
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schubitzke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hermantown in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindHermantown-A 9 diameter healthy poplar tree was blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHermantown-There were a few large trees blown down in front of the Deerfield Townhomes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHermantown-There were trees down along Ugstad Road.
June 2012Flash FloodHermantown-Water covered the eastbound lane at Highway 194 and US Highway 53.
June 2012Flash FloodHermantown-Water covered a large area of road at Highway 53 and Maple Grove Road making that area impassable and flooding many businesses due to the flooding from Miller Creek and urbanization.
June 2012Flash FloodHermantown-Maple Grove Road, about a mile east of Midway Road, was under at least three feet of water from the flooded Midway River.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHermantown-A ten-inch diameter tree blew over and brought down a power line.
October 2011HailHermantown-The hail fell in the west part of Hermantown.
September 2011HailHermantown-Hail was reported one mile west of Midway Road and Route 194.
September 2011HailHermantown-Hail was reported at the intersection of Maple Grove Road and Stebner Road. Small limbs were also blown down when the hail fell.
July 2006HailHermantown-The hail fell on Anderson Road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHermantown-A few trees were blown down and power was out.
May 2004HailHermantown-The hail fell at Old Midway Road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHermantown-Trees were blown down. Trees were also down in Twig.
June 2021HailHermantown-no account filed
September 2011HailHermantown-no account filed
June 2010HailHermantown-no account filed
August 2008HailHermantown-no account filed
August 2002HailHermantown-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHermantown-no account filed
July 1998HailHermantown-no account filed
August 1998HailHermantown-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindHermantown-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHermantown-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
Saint Paul Church2.1 miles15
Five Corners2.2 miles9
Adolph3.0 miles9
Four Corners3.9 miles9
Proctor4.2 miles20
Bayview4.7 miles20
Zenith Terrace4.9 miles20
Munger5.6 miles9

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 HermantownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924152The 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 660490. 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.