Mizpah, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northome unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56660. The Survey maps it on the Mizpah quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,378 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMizpah grew from 56 to 58 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 | 56 | |
| 2020 | 58 | +2 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Gemmell quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bemidji quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Mizpah quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Blackduck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
40 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Mizpah between 1993 and 2016, burning about 225 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mizpah in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Grove | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Northome | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Gemmell | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pinetop | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wildwood | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Margie | 18.3 miles | 7 | |
| Gates Corner | 21.0 miles | 8 | |
| Sturgeon River Landing | 26.1 miles | 7 |
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 Mizpah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1952785 | 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 657440. 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.





