Lengby, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56651. It stands on Sugar Bush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fosston East quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,385 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLengby grew from 86 to 92 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 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 92 | +6 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Fosston quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fosston East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fosston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Lengby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,736 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 28 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 125 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Minnesota Agency | JEFF |
| 3 May 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lengby: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murray Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lengby in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Hail | Lengby | - | Trained spotter reports hail. Largest stone was 1.25 with an average of around 1 inch. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lengby | - | Peak wind was measured at the MNDOT RWIS station on Hwy 2. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lengby | - | Large branches were blown down and power was knocked out. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Lengby | - | The hail fell along the Polk and Clearwater county line. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lengby | - | Several 8 to 10 inch diameter birch trees were uprooted or blown down near the Clearwater/Polk County line. The trees were in the early leaf stage. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lengby | - | 2 inch diameter tree branches were blown down with reports of power outages. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Lengby | - | Heavy rain, falling over saturated soil, quickly caused low-lying areas to fill with water. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Lengby | - | Numerous roads washed out and a basement caved in. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lengby | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Lengby | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lengby | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lengby | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Lengby | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lengby | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lengby | - | 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.
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 Lengby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230279 | 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 646595. 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.





