Humboldt, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Vincent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56731. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHumboldt fell from 45 to 41 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -4 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1939 USGS Pembina quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Pembina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt between 1994 and 2018, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humboldt in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 9 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Humboldt | $250,000 | The tornado tore the doors off a steel building, flipped a camper trailer, and uprooted around 50 trees. Around 30 power poles were damaged, causing $150,000 in damages to the local utility. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F3) | Humboldt | $200,000 | The tornado demolished 4 structures. One of the structures, a 30x40 foot machine shed, was swept from its foundation and thrown into the adjacent fields. Tools from the shed were driven into the banks of a nearby highway. Other debris was spread over a mile away. Many trees were torn up. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | - | An NDAWN sensor measured the wind gust. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Humboldt | - | A pole barn was blown down. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Humboldt | - | The tornado snapped off 2 power poles and tore 2 steel grain bins from their foundations. The steel debris was carried over one mile downwind. Peak winds were estimated at 120 mph. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Humboldt | - | Several county roads were washed out. Four homes were flooded in Humboldt, Orleans, and Richardson Township. One of the homes had first floor damage and the other three had basement water damage. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Humboldt | - | The tornado demolished 3 large grain bins, tore the doors off a large steel building, and blew down a small radio tower. Peak winds were estimated at 140 mph. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Humboldt | - | The hail broke a window on a home. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Humboldt | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Humboldt | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sultan | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Vincent Junction | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Northcote | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Vincent | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Noyes | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Orleans | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hallock | 12.8 miles | 11 | |
| Viking Land Terrace | 13.1 miles | 11 |
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 Humboldt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230799 | 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 645281. 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.







