Laporte, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Laporte City. It lies in ZIP code area 56461. The Survey maps it on the Laporte quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLaporte grew from 111 to 134 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 | 111 | |
| 2020 | 134 | +23 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Laporte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Cass Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Laporte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 9.6 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 21 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Laporte: 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bunker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cass County Marl Beds No 1 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Cass County Marl Beds No 2 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Cass County Marl Beds No 3 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laporte in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | 2 hurt, $10,000 | Strong winds flipped a car over. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | $1,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | $500 | The strong wind blew several trees down. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | $400 | Several large trees were blown down. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | NWS Employee spoke with the public and noted 3-inch to 4-inch tree branches down just west of the city of Laporte, MN. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | Several large trees were reported down near LaPorte, including one tree over a residential deck. Time estimated based on radar. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Laporte | - | A few large hail fell with strong winds. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Laporte | - | The hail fell near Kabekona Lake. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | A few large trees were blown down around Garfield Lake. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Laporte | - | Nickel to golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Laporte | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | Several hundred trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm downburst winds as the storms traveled across southern Clearwater, southern Beltrami and northern Hubbard County. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Laporte | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benedict | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Guthrie | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Kabekona Corner | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Nary | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Farris | 11.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lake George | 12.7 miles | 8 | |
| Yola | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Akeley | 14.5 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 Laporte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230104 | 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 656948. 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.




