Nimrod, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Nimrod City. It lies in ZIP code area 56477. It stands on Cat River. The Survey maps it on the Nimrod quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,325 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNimrod grew from 69 to 84 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 | 69 | |
| 2020 | 84 | +15 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Nimrod quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
121 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Nimrod between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,874 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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 | 71 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 124 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nimrod in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nimrod | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Nimrod | $10,000 | Up to 7 inches of rain fell, making the low spots in fields look like lakes. Water also covered several roads. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nimrod | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nimrod | - | A few large branches were blown down. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Nimrod | - | The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Nimrod | - | The hail fell near Huntersville State Forest. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nimrod | - | An eight inch diameter tree branch fell across a driveway. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Nimrod | - | The hail was quarter to half dollar size. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nimrod | - | Large tree limbs were broken down and small wind driven hail raked flower beds. hail sized estimated at dime to nickel sized. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Nimrod | - | The tornado tracked east-northeastward intermittently for about 5 miles, where it reached the Cass County line east of Nimrod. The tornado continued northeast into Cass County for several more miles. Numerous large tree branches were broken down along this path. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nimrod | - | Several four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Nimrod | - | The hail was 3 inches deep. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Nimrod | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oylen | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Huntersville | 9.5 miles | 8 | |
| Blue Grass | 9.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sebeka | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Esterdy | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Menahga | 14.0 miles | 10 | |
| Verndale | 18.1 miles | 9 | |
| Aldrich | 18.4 miles | 9 |
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 Nimrod | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228457 | 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 648556. 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.





