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Onamia, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Onamia City. It lies in ZIP code area 56359. It stands on Black Brook. The Survey maps it on the Onamia quadrangle. 784 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.

Onamia within Mille Lacs County

On record in Onamia

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Onamia fell from 878 to 784 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
2010878
2020784-94 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Onamia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,437 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural1
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
24 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2004Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mille Lacs County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onamia in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 9 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOnamia$250,000Two large barns had their roof structure uplifted and blown off south of Onamia.
June 2001Flash FloodOnamia$10,000Several roads flooded. Basements flooded in Wahkon. Four and seven tenths inches of rain at Gull Lake.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOnamia$10,000Numerous trees down, some falling on homes.
April 2025HailOnamia-A few quarter size hailstones mixed in with mainly pea size hail.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOnamia-The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Emergency Management showed a few trees that were blown down in the city of Onamia.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOnamia-The local emergency manager indicated that a few trees and power lines were blown down from southwest of Onamia, to the Kanabec County line.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOnamia-A few trees were blown down in the city of Onamia.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOnamia-Trees down across access road in Mille Lacs camp ground.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOnamia-Large trees down on Hwy. 169.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOnamia-Tree downed over road.
October 2006HailOnamia-Hail covered the ground to a depth of 3 inches.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOnamia-4 inch branches down. Outdoor furniture blown around.
September 1997Tornado (F3)Onamia-Several buildings destroyed and numerous other buildings damaged. Hundreds of trees down. A number of cattle killed in barn collapse. Damage estimate included in entry for Morrison county. Total path length from 1 NE of Lastup to Onamia was 17 miles.
July 2017HailOnamia-no account filed
July 2017HailOnamia-no account filed
June 2015HailOnamia-no account filed
September 2014HailOnamia-no account filed
September 2014HailOnamia-no account filed
July 2014HailOnamia-no account filed
July 2014HailOnamia-no account filed
July 2014HailOnamia-no account filed
July 2014HailOnamia-no account filed
June 2007HailOnamia-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudOnamia-no account filed
September 1997HailOnamia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mille Lacs 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
Cove3.7 miles6
Bayview4.8 miles6
Johnsdale6.9 miles7
Vineland8.0 miles6
Wahkon8.4 miles6
Isle11.4 miles6
Page12.6 miles11
Opstead15.3 miles6

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 OnamiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q948669The 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 648967. 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.