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Leonidas, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Leonidas City. It lies in ZIP code area 55734. The Survey maps it on the Eveleth quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Leonidas within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Leonidas fell from 52 to 50 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
201052
202050-2 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

303 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 303 fires within 5 miles of Leonidas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 549 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 93 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
Arson/incendiarism93
Debris and open burning58
Railroad operations and maintenance53
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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
5 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance71 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesJUNCTION 101 FIRE
26 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 82 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 82 workings within 5 miles of Leonidas: 63 past producers, 16 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Brunt MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1906
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Security MineIron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1961
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Rouchleau GroupIron, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aad MineIronPast Producer1904
Alberta MineIronPast Producer1907

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
De Forest0.4 miles12
Snowden1.2 miles12
Largo1.3 miles12
Eveleth1.7 miles12
Wolf2.1 miles12
Spruce2.4 miles12
Ramshaw2.4 miles12
Rainy Junction2.9 miles12

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 LeonidasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230079The 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 661705. 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.