Hillman, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hillman City. It lies in ZIP code area 56364. The Survey maps it on the Hillman quadrangle. 23 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHillman fell from 38 to 23 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 38 | |
| 2020 | 23 | -15 (-39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hillman quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mille Lacs Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
117 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Hillman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,917 acres in total. None started naturally. 86 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/incendiarism | 86 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 June 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillman in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Hillman | $149,000 | A combination of record setting seasonal snowfall, high snow water equivalent values, and rapid snow melt led to low lying areas, ditches, and ravines across the county to flood for a prolonged period of time. Road infrastructure such as bridges, gravel roads, and culverts experience varied degrees of damage caused by rapid runoff. Morrison County Emergency Management reported $149,300 in damages to roads and bridges. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Hillman | $1,000 | Large hail damaged a residence north the intersection of County Road 34 and 33 in Morrison County. |
| July 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Hillman | - | Funnel cloud photos were provided for an area southwest of Lake Mille Lacs. Time and location were estimated based on radar. |
| September 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Hillman | - | A funnel cloud was observed from the spotters northeast location along County Road 47. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Hillman | - | An NWS survey found damage consistent with an EF-0 tornado in eastern Morrison county about 2 miles southeast of Hillman. It traveled east-northeast for nearly 3 miles uprooting trees along its path. It moved across one farmstead with the only damage being to uprooted trees. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hillman | - | A trained spotter measured 4.77 inches of rainfall 8 miles southeast of Hillman from two waves of thunderstorms. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hillman | - | A measured rainfall report of 3.97 inches occurred south of Hillman. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Hillman | - | A Morrison County engineer said the county closed County Road 234 in multiple spots, and County Road 254 at Minnesota Highway 25. County Road 244 was also closed after a large box culvert washed out, which was likely the most expensive occurrence of damage to the county from the flooding, according to the engineer. Most of these county roads were along Skunk, Hillman and Little Mink Creeks, as well as the Platte River near the Crow Wing county border. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Hillman | - | A trained spotter measured 2.01 inches of rain in 30 minutes, with a total of 3.02 inches in three hours. |
| March 2009 | Heavy Rain | Hillman | - | A local spotter reported over two inches of rain in a short period of time. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Hillman | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hillman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231749 | The 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 644993. 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.



