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Menahga, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blueberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56464. The Survey maps it on the Menahga quadrangle. 1,340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Menahga within Wadena County

Population over time

2 figures

Menahga grew from 1,306 to 1,340 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
20101,306
20201,340+34 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Menahga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burning22 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2012Fireworks3.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wadena County

Storms near this place

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menahga in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 17 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2008Tornado (EF2)Menahga1 hurt, $5,000,000The tornado touched down near the south end of Stocking Lake and tracked north-northeast for nearly 14 miles. It crossed into Hubbard County about 4 miles north-northeast of Menagha by 920 am CDT. It then tracked an additional 9 miles and lifted about 3 miles northeast of Park Rapids by 934 am CDT. The maximum tornado width was about 450 yards with peak winds of 130 mph. Eight large turkey barns were destroyed and several homes damaged along with hundreds of acres of forest. One man working near a turkey barn was injured.
August 2000LightningMenahga$20,000Lightning struck a garage, which ignited a fire that burned the entire structure down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMenahga$15,000Numerous trees were blown down in Menahga, with one tree falling on a house.
June 1996HailMenahga$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMenahga$5,000Strong winds blew down numerous trees around Spirit Lake. One property owner reported that his dock, boat lift, and pontoon were flipped completely over.
March 2009FloodMenahga$5,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Several poplar and ash trees were snapped across western Blueberry Township. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Strong winds damaged a porch.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMenahga-A few trees were snapped.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Small trees and branches were blown down as well as a heavy golf target.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Trees were blown down or uprooted and streets were blocked by downed trees and power lines. A metal roof was blown off a building.
July 2015Funnel CloudMenahga-A wall cloud with funnel were viewed from Park Rapids.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Several six inch diameter tree branches were blown down around town.
June 2015HailMenahga-The hail ranged in size from penny to quarter size. Pictures showed the hail thick enough to cover the ground.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Shingles were blown off a roof and numerous trees were blown down. A significant amount of quarter to half inch hail covered the ground for a period of time after the storm passed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Several large tree limbs were broken down and power poles snapped near Lower Twin Lake and the Hubbard County line. The time was estimated from radar.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMenahga-Numerous large branches were broken down and a few pine and poplar trees were snapped across northern Blueberry Township.
August 2007HailMenahga-Hail covered the lawn.
September 2005HailMenahga-The hail occurred with strong winds and frequent lightning.
July 2022HailMenahga-no account filed
September 2019HailMenahga-no account filed
May 2018HailMenahga-no account filed
July 2012HailMenahga-no account filed
July 2012HailMenahga-no account filed
July 2012HailMenahga-no account filed
June 2008HailMenahga-no account filed
July 2008HailMenahga-no account filed
July 2002HailMenahga-no account filed
August 2001HailMenahga-no account filed
August 2001HailMenahga-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMenahga-no account filed
July 1998HailMenahga-no account filed
June 1998HailMenahga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wadena 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
Sebeka8.6 miles9
Huntersville11.0 miles8
Nimrod14.0 miles8
Blue Grass15.3 miles9
Oylen20.1 miles8
Wadena21.6 miles9
Verndale24.9 miles9
Esterdy27.2 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 MenahgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924212The 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 647760. 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.