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Northome, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Northome unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56661. The Survey maps it on the Northome South quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Northome within Koochiching County

Population over time

2 figures

Northome fell from 200 to 155 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
2010200
2020155-45 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Northome between 1995 and 2018, burning about 190 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 August 2005Debris 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 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Debris 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northome in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2001: 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 2001HailNorthome-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNorthome-no account filed
May 1998HailNorthome-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
Mizpah5.4 miles9
Forest Grove7.6 miles9
Pinetop9.7 miles9
Gemmell10.8 miles9
Wildwood16.7 miles10
Margie23.7 miles7
Gates Corner25.7 miles8
Sturgeon River Landing31.4 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 NorthomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924478The 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 657633. 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.