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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.

Laporte within Hubbard County

Population over time

2 figures

Laporte 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.

YearPeople Change
2010111
2020134+23 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

75 since 1992

Regional 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 September 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2004Debris and open burning9.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use21 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bunker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bunker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cass County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Cass County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Cass County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hubbard County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLaporte2 hurt, $10,000Strong winds flipped a car over.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLaporte$1,000Trees were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLaporte$500The strong wind blew several trees down.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLaporte$400Several large trees were blown down.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindLaporte-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 2021Thunderstorm WindLaporte-Several large trees were reported down near LaPorte, including one tree over a residential deck. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2019HailLaporte-A few large hail fell with strong winds.
September 2018HailLaporte-The hail fell near Kabekona Lake.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLaporte-A few large trees were blown down around Garfield Lake.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLaporte-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2008HailLaporte-Nickel to golf ball sized hail was reported.
June 1999HailLaporte-Hail covered the ground.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLaporte-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 2016HailLaporte-no account filed
June 2008HailLaporte-no account filed
May 2003HailLaporte-no account filed
July 2003HailLaporte-no account filed
July 2003HailLaporte-no account filed
April 2002HailLaporte-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLaporte-no account filed
June 2002HailLaporte-no account filed
August 2000HailLaporte-no account filed
August 2000HailLaporte-no account filed
June 1997HailLaporte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hubbard 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
Benedict5.1 miles9
Guthrie6.3 miles9
Kabekona Corner6.6 miles8
Nary11.2 miles9
Farris11.6 miles9
Lake George12.7 miles8
Yola13.7 miles9
Akeley14.5 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 LaporteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230104The 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.