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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.

Lengby within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Lengby 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.

YearPeople Change
201086
202092+6 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

48 since 1992

Regional 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
18 August 2003Debris and open burning28 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2020Debris and open burning125 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota AgencyJEFF
3 May 2002Equipment and vehicle use22 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Murray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023HailLengby-Trained spotter reports hail. Largest stone was 1.25 with an average of around 1 inch.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLengby-Peak wind was measured at the MNDOT RWIS station on Hwy 2.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLengby-Large branches were blown down and power was knocked out.
June 2016HailLengby-The hail fell along the Polk and Clearwater county line.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLengby-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 2006Thunderstorm WindLengby-2 inch diameter tree branches were blown down with reports of power outages.
June 1997Flash FloodLengby-Heavy rain, falling over saturated soil, quickly caused low-lying areas to fill with water.
June 1997Flash FloodLengby-Numerous roads washed out and a basement caved in.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLengby-no account filed
July 2018Funnel CloudLengby-no account filed
May 2013HailLengby-no account filed
July 2008HailLengby-no account filed
July 2006HailLengby-no account filed
June 1997HailLengby-no account filed
June 1997HailLengby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
West View Court7.4 miles10
Fosston7.4 miles10
Olga11.9 miles10
McIntosh15.7 miles11
Gully17.5 miles11
Trail18.5 miles11
Winger18.7 miles9
Erskine22.4 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 LengbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230279The 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.