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McGregor, Minnesota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in McGregor City. It lies in ZIP code area 55760. The Survey maps it on the McGregor quadrangle. 384 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

McGregor within Aitkin County

On record in McGregor

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

McGregor fell from 391 to 384 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
2010391
2020384-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of McGregor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,667 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning29
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2015Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGregor in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 tornado. 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 1994Tornado (F0)McGregor-A small tornado touched down near McGregor downing trees.

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
East Lake5.0 miles5
Grayling5.7 miles5
Minnewawa6.7 miles6
Sheshebee7.8 miles5
Kimberly8.7 miles6
Lawler9.0 miles6
Tamarack10.2 miles5
Thor10.6 miles7

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 McGregorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924745The 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 647683. 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.

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.