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Littlefork, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Littlefork City. It lies in ZIP code area 56653. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Littlefork quadrangle. 553 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Littlefork within Koochiching County

On record in Littlefork

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Littlefork fell from 647 to 553 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
2010647
2020553-94 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Littlefork between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning36
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching 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 Littlefork: 5 producers. 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
County Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Happyland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Happyland Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Happyland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Little Fork PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littlefork in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 1998: 3 hail. 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 1998HailLittlefork-no account filed
August 1998HailLittlefork-no account filed
October 1996HailLittlefork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Pelland8.6 miles8
Wisner9.0 miles7
Nakoda9.5 miles9
Laurel10.2 miles8
Lindford12.0 miles7
Ericsburg13.4 miles8
Loman15.3 miles6
South International Falls15.4 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 LittleforkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230146The 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 646969. 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.