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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.

Nimrod within Wadena County

Population over time

2 figures

Nimrod 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.

YearPeople Change
201069
202084+15 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

121 since 1992

Regional 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 burning71
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
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
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use124 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

21 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1996Thunderstorm WindNimrod$250,000no account filed
June 2018Flash FloodNimrod$10,000Up to 7 inches of rain fell, making the low spots in fields look like lakes. Water also covered several roads.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNimrod$1,000Several trees were blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNimrod-A few large branches were blown down.
July 2018HailNimrod-The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
August 2018HailNimrod-The hail fell near Huntersville State Forest.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNimrod-An eight inch diameter tree branch fell across a driveway.
July 2010HailNimrod-The hail was quarter to half dollar size.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNimrod-Large tree limbs were broken down and small wind driven hail raked flower beds. hail sized estimated at dime to nickel sized.
June 2010Tornado (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 2009Thunderstorm WindNimrod-Several four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
August 2007HailNimrod-The hail was 3 inches deep.
July 2022HailNimrod-no account filed
August 2018HailNimrod-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudNimrod-no account filed
July 2008HailNimrod-no account filed
June 2005HailNimrod-no account filed
June 2005HailNimrod-no account filed
July 2003HailNimrod-no account filed
August 2002HailNimrod-no account filed
September 1999HailNimrod-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
Oylen6.2 miles8
Huntersville9.5 miles8
Blue Grass9.5 miles9
Sebeka11.0 miles9
Esterdy13.7 miles9
Menahga14.0 miles10
Verndale18.1 miles9
Aldrich18.4 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 NimrodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228457The 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.