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McKinley, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in McKinley City. It lies in ZIP code area 55741. The Survey maps it on the McKinley quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,480 feet above sea level.

McKinley within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

McKinley fell from 128 to 103 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
2010128
2020103-25 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of McKinley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 burning35
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2

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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestPIKE MOUNTAIN
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder 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 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 104 workings within 5 miles of McKinley: 92 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Manganese, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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
Corsica MineIron, Aluminum, Silica, Manganese, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1901
Jl-47 Reserve Jl-47Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreeProspect
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 16wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
McKinley MineIron, SilicaProducer1907
Welton MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
Ajax MineIronPast Producer1899
Ajax MineIronPast Producer
Alberta MineIronPast Producer1907
Alberta MineIronPast Producer
Belgrade MineIronPast Producer1908

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
Elcor1.7 miles13
Belgrade2.3 miles14
Gilbert3.3 miles11
Biwabik4.0 miles14
Sparta4.7 miles11
Franklin6.0 miles16
Genoa6.2 miles12
Midway6.3 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 McKinleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475855The 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 661888. 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.