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Nowthen, Minnesota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Nowthen City. It lies in ZIP code area 55303. The Survey maps it on the Nowthen quadrangle. 4,536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Nowthen within Anoka County

On record in Nowthen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Nowthen grew from 4,443 to 4,536 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
20104,443
20204,536+93 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Nowthen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 447 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Nowthen: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barsody PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barton Pit No 715Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elk River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elk River Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kreger Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Malstrom Pit No 726Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plaisted SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Preussers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nowthen in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 WindNowthen1 hurt, $500,000A large area of western Anoka County received damage from severe straight line winds that moved from west to east across the area between 1830 to 1850 CST. Damage included power lines, railroad crossing gates, personal property and trees. One injury occurred as a parade and other activities were happening during the onset of the storm near Coon Rapids. The main damage occurred from near Nowthen, east and southeast to Oak Grove, Coon Rapids, Anoka, Fridley, and Spring Lake Park.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNowthen-Several dozen trees were uprooted or broken, with some landing on fences and houses. A damage survey indicated a classic microburst pattern. Time based on radar and a citizen time stamp on a photo.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNowthen-Many trees were toppled, with some across roads from Nowthen to East Bethel.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindNowthen-A large tree blew down at the intersection of Armstrong Blvd NW and 173rd Ave NW in Ramsey, Minnesota.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNowthen-Several trees were blown down east of Elk River, Minnesota.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNowthen-A hoop greenhouse building and the trees and shrubs inside the structure were damaged at a nursery. The time was estimated.
May 2022HailNowthen-no account filed
May 2022HailNowthen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Ramsey4.7 miles16
Itasca Village (historical)5.9 miles15
Saint Francis7.1 miles15
Oak Grove7.6 miles16
Woodlyn Court9.4 miles15
Cedar9.8 miles16
Anoka10.0 miles19
Constance11.0 miles16

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 NowthenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2223853The 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 648768. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.