BlockMcGrath, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McGrath City. It lies in ZIP code area 56350. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the McGrath quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.
On record in McGrath
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
Arthyde Stone Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresMcGrath fell from 80 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 80 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -39 (-49%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Mc Grath quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mille Lacs Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of McGrath between 1992 and 2019, burning about 766 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2015 | Smoking | 18 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 McGrath | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230209 | 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 647681. 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.