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.
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
- Frank Gran Farmsteadlisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresLa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 665 | |
| 2020 | 653 | -12 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS La Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Pokegama Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
217 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 93 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 35 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Mine | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Silica | Past Producer | 1943 | |
| Fargo Reserve H-5 | Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica | Prospect | ||
| Lind-Greenway Mine | Iron, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1890, 1940 | |
| Bovey-Delaittre Reserve H-27 | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Prospect | ||
| Pokegama Reserve X-56 | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Prospect | ||
| Brink Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Brink Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bud Seigel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Casper Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Harms Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2016Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | La Prairie | - | Two feet of water was covering US Highway 169 in the vicinity of Glenwood Drive causing the road to be closed. |
| July 2017 | Flood | La Prairie | - | Highway 169 was flooded with four to five inches of standing water covering the road. |
| May 2022 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | La Prairie | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Grand Rapids | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| North Star Moblie Home Park | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Canisteo | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lakeview Terrace | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Coleraine | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bovey | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Blackberry | 6.2 miles | 9 |
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 Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q749915 | 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 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.





