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Kettle River, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Silver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55757. It stands on Dead Moose River. The Survey maps it on the Kettle River quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.

Kettle River within Carlton County

Population over time

2 figures

Kettle River fell from 180 to 166 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
2010180
2020166-14 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Kettle River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
25 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kettle River: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Alsted MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Conservation PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nemadji Tile and Pottery Pit No 2ClayPast Producer
Nemadji Tile and Pottery Pit No 3ClayPast Producer
Nemadui Tile and Pottery Pit No 1ClayPast Producer
Uranim Prospect No 8UraniumOccurrence
Uranium Prospect No 3UraniumOccurrence
Uranium Prospect No 4UraniumOccurrence
Uranium Prospect No 6UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kettle River in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindKettle River-Branches were reported down along with a mature pine tree down across a road on the north side of town.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKettle River-Trees of 4, 5 and 8 inches in diameter were blown down over Highway 73 south of Kettle River.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindKettle River-A few trees measuring 10 inches in diameter were knocked down along Minnesota 27 by the intersection with Minnesota 73.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindKettle River-A few trees were knocked along Minnesota Highway 73 west of Moose Lake.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindKettle River-Four trees were knocked down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKettle River-Trees were blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindKettle River-An 8 inch diameter tree was uprooted and a 6 inch diameter tree was snapped off three feet above the ground.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKettle River-Several trees were blown down.
August 2022HailKettle River-no account filed
July 2017HailKettle River-no account filed
August 2015HailKettle River-no account filed
August 2000HailKettle River-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKettle River-no account filed
May 1998HailKettle River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Hillside Terrace Homes6.4 miles7
Moose Lake6.7 miles7
Automba7.7 miles5
Barnum10.1 miles7
Cromwell13.1 miles7
Woodbury13.6 miles7
Corona13.7 miles7
Wright14.0 miles6

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 Kettle RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230267The 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 646127. 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.