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Leonard, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dudley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56652. The Survey maps it on the Leonard quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

Leonard within Clearwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Leonard grew from 41 to 41 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
201041
2020410 (0%)

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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Leonard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3

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
2 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1993Arson/incendiarism21 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater 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 Leonard: 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
Power Ready Mix Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonard in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLeonard-A few large trees were blown down in northern Sinclair Township.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Multiple trees were blown down, one falling on a house. A garage and barn were also damaged.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Several tree branches were blown down.
June 2007Funnel CloudLeonard-Multiple funnels were seen over Clearwater Lake.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Leonard-The tornado knocked down numerous trees along county road 24. Estimated peak winds were 90 mph. The tornado continued into Beltrami county.
July 2018HailLeonard-no account filed
July 2018HailLeonard-no account filed
August 2011HailLeonard-no account filed
May 2009HailLeonard-no account filed
September 2007HailLeonard-no account filed
May 2003HailLeonard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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
Shevlin8.4 miles10
Clearbrook8.9 miles10
Bagley11.2 miles10
Gonvick14.1 miles10
Weme14.1 miles10
Berner15.0 miles10
Winsor (historical)15.8 miles11
Ebro17.4 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 LeonardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1966245The 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 646604. 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.