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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.

Hillman within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Hillman 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.

YearPeople Change
201038
202023-15 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

117 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism86
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarism40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2008Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023FloodHillman$149,000A 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 2014HailHillman$1,000Large hail damaged a residence north the intersection of County Road 34 and 33 in Morrison County.
July 2024Funnel CloudHillman-Funnel cloud photos were provided for an area southwest of Lake Mille Lacs. Time and location were estimated based on radar.
September 2021Funnel CloudHillman-A funnel cloud was observed from the spotters northeast location along County Road 47.
August 2020Tornado (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 2016Heavy RainHillman-A trained spotter measured 4.77 inches of rainfall 8 miles southeast of Hillman from two waves of thunderstorms.
July 2016Heavy RainHillman-A measured rainfall report of 3.97 inches occurred south of Hillman.
July 2016Flash FloodHillman-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 2010Heavy RainHillman-A trained spotter measured 2.01 inches of rain in 30 minutes, with a total of 3.02 inches in three hours.
March 2009Heavy RainHillman-A local spotter reported over two inches of rain in a short period of time.
August 2014HailHillman-no account filed
May 2012HailHillman-no account filed
July 2011HailHillman-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHillman-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHillman-no account filed
August 2007HailHillman-no account filed
October 2006HailHillman-no account filed
June 2005HailHillman-no account filed
September 2005HailHillman-no account filed
April 2004HailHillman-no account filed
July 1999HailHillman-no account filed
September 1997HailHillman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Lastrup9.3 miles12
Harding11.0 miles12
Pierz11.3 miles10
Ramey11.9 miles11
Morrill12.1 miles11
Genola12.2 miles10
Platte12.2 miles12
Buckman12.9 miles10

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 HillmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231749The 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.