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Kelliher, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Kelliher City. It lies in ZIP code area 56650. The Survey maps it on the Kelliher quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Kelliher within Beltrami County

On record in Kelliher

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

Kelliher fell from 262 to 258 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
2010262
2020258-4 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Kelliher between 1992 and 2018, burning about 115 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
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
9 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kelliher: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Kelliher ProspectGoldUnknownGold

Every working recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelliher in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKelliher$5,000Roofing material was blown off the Kelliher Cafe. Several large trees were also blown down.
July 2023HailKelliher-Emergency Manager of Beltrami county reports quarter sized hail 4 miles west of Kelliher.
July 2023HailKelliher-Beltrami county emergency manager reports golf ball sized hail that caused a lot of damage to his vehicle. Cost of damage unknown.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKelliher-Several large pine and poplar trees were snapped or uprooted along Highway 72, between Shooks and Kelliher. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindKelliher-Received a public report of a few large 3 to 5 inch branches broken down.
August 2022HailKelliher-Report of very heavy rains and lots of pea size hail, with a few up to nickel size. Report posted via social media. Time estimated based on radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindKelliher-Scattered power outages were reported.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKelliher-Aircraft were overturned at the Kelliher airport. Some of the aircraft were pushed onto highway 72.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKelliher-Extensive tree damage was reported.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindKelliher-A tree, about 10 inches in diameter, was blown down across a road.
June 2005Flash FloodKelliher-Water flowed over highway 72 from Cormorant Creek and Battle River.
July 2008HailKelliher-no account filed
June 2003HailKelliher-no account filed
June 2002HailKelliher-no account filed
July 2001HailKelliher-no account filed
August 2000HailKelliher-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKelliher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Shooks4.7 miles10
Inez9.0 miles9
Funkley10.9 miles10
Saum12.3 miles9
Shotley12.5 miles7
Domaas13.2 miles7
Otto13.2 miles7
Langor13.4 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 KelliherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230477The 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 656866. 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.