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.
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
- Francis White Homesteadlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresLittlefork 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 647 | |
| 2020 | 553 | -94 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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 Happy Land quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Littlefork quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Littlefork quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Happyland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Happyland Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Happyland Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Little Fork Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Littlefork | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Littlefork | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Littlefork | - | 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 Littlefork | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230146 | 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 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.





