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La Prairie, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in La Prairie City. It lies in ZIP code area 55744. It stands on Prairie River. The Survey maps it on the La Prairie quadrangle. 653 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

La Prairie within Itasca County

On record in La Prairie

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

La Prairie fell from 665 to 653 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
2010665
2020653-12 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of La Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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 burning93
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2003Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of La Prairie: 17 past producers, 10 producers, 8 prospects. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Water, Free. 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
Buckeye MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, SilicaPast Producer1943
Fargo Reserve H-5Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, SilicaProspect
Lind-Greenway MineIron, Water, FreePast Producer1890, 1940
Bovey-Delaittre Reserve H-27Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Pokegama Reserve X-56Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Brink PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brink Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bud Seigel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Casper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

7 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Prairie in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 flood, 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
August 2020Flash FloodLa Prairie-Two feet of water was covering US Highway 169 in the vicinity of Glenwood Drive causing the road to be closed.
July 2017FloodLa Prairie-Highway 169 was flooded with four to five inches of standing water covering the road.
May 2022HailLa Prairie-no account filed
August 2022HailLa Prairie-no account filed
July 2021HailLa Prairie-no account filed
July 2021HailLa Prairie-no account filed
March 2016HailLa Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Gunn1.1 miles9
Grand Rapids2.3 miles11
North Star Moblie Home Park3.2 miles11
Canisteo4.5 miles12
Lakeview Terrace5.0 miles11
Coleraine5.3 miles12
Bovey5.9 miles12
Blackberry6.2 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 La PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q749915The 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 656924. 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.