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Ogema, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ogema City. It lies in ZIP code area 56569. The Survey maps it on the Ogema quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.

Ogema within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Ogema grew from 184 to 208 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
2010184
2020208+24 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

652 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 652 fires within 5 miles of Ogema between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,758 acres in total. None started naturally. 443 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
Arson/incendiarism443
Debris and open burning126
Misuse of fire by a minor45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
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
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Agency550FIRE
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota AgencyBARKSKINS
1 June 1997Arson/incendiarism180 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyCRIB FIRE
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyRAIN 2
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyRAIN 3
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyCATTAIL DITCH
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyRAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogema in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 flood. 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindOgema$25,000no account filed
March 2009FloodOgema$5,000no account filed
April 2009FloodOgema$5,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindOgema$1,000Tree branches were blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindOgema$200Large branches were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOgema$200Branches were blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOgema-Measured gust at NDAWN mesonet station 218411 Ulen, MN.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOgema-Measured gust at NDAWN mesonet station 218411 Ulen, MN.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOgema-Public reports 3 inch tree limbs broken.
June 2023Tornado (EFU)Ogema-A spotter reported brief touchdown near Flom. It occurred in open fields, which mitigated any damage. Therefore, the rating of EF-U has been assigned with an estimated path width and length.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOgema-Large branches and power lines were blown down along highway 59.
August 2018HailOgema-Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground, filled ditches, and damaged crops.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindOgema-Numerous large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts across Spring Creek and Riceville townships.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Ogema-A brief touchdown was reported.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Ogema-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
June 2002Flash FloodOgema-Water flowed over highway 59 and basement flooding was reported.
June 2002Flash FloodOgema-Several county roads were washed out.
August 2020HailOgema-no account filed
September 2019HailOgema-no account filed
September 2019HailOgema-no account filed
August 2015HailOgema-no account filed
April 2011FloodOgema-no account filed
September 2007HailOgema-no account filed
October 2005HailOgema-no account filed
June 2004HailOgema-no account filed
August 2004HailOgema-no account filed
August 2004HailOgema-no account filed
July 2003HailOgema-no account filed
June 2002HailOgema-no account filed
June 2002HailOgema-no account filed
June 2002HailOgema-no account filed
August 2002HailOgema-no account filed
August 2002HailOgema-no account filed
June 1999HailOgema-no account filed
July 1999HailOgema-no account filed
July 1998Tornado (F0)Ogema-no account filed
June 1997HailOgema-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
White Earth4.3 miles9
Callaway8.3 miles9
Richwood10.4 miles10
Westbury12.8 miles9
Audubon16.8 miles11
LaBelle16.8 miles7
Lake Park17.4 miles7
Richards18.4 miles11

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 OgemaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924316The 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 648899. 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.