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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.

Mizpah within Koochiching County

Population over time

2 figures

Mizpah 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.

YearPeople Change
201056
202058+2 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

40 since 1993

Regional 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMizpah-Tree branches were blown down.
June 2006HailMizpah-no account filed
May 1996HailMizpah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Forest Grove3.9 miles9
Northome5.4 miles11
Gemmell5.4 miles9
Pinetop5.5 miles9
Wildwood12.8 miles10
Margie18.3 miles7
Gates Corner21.0 miles8
Sturgeon River Landing26.1 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 MizpahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1952785The 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.