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Orr, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Orr City. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. It stands on Sucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orr quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Orr within St. Louis County

On record in Orr

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Orr fell from 267 to 211 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
2010267
2020211-56 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Orr between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orr in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindOrr$2,000A tree about 12 to 14 inches in diameter was blown over during the storm onto power poles and broke them.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOrr-A swath of trees about 30 yards across was reported down through the woods along Highway 23. The observer reports it looks like someone took a huge mower to the forest.
July 2019Tornado (EF0)Orr-The supercell which produced the Gheen Hill tornado continued to |move toward the east-northeast and a second mesocyclone developed |a short time after the Gheen Hill tornado dissipated. The Carlson |Lake tornado developed approximately 500 yards west of the Elbow |River and six-tenths of a mile north of the western end of Ban |Lake. The tornado tracked toward the northeast producing sporadic |EF-0 damage to trees. The tornado turned due east approximately |one mile west of Carlson Lake and intensified. The tornado produced|a swath of EF-1 damage, which was a maximum of 300 yards wide and|passed over Carlson Lake. Tree damage corresponding to high-end |EF-1 wind speeds was noted over much of this area. The tornado |turned toward the northeast after crossing Carlson Lake and |crossed over Elbow Lake Forest Road before gradually weakening. |The tornado dissipated shortly after crossing Shuster Road. We are|very grateful for the help identifying this tornado's path |provided by a private meteorologist in Grand Rapids, MN. High-|resolution satellite imagery was critical to assessing the |location, path, width, and peak intensity of this tornado.
June 2011Heavy RainOrr-One hour rainfall of 1.24 inches was reported.
May 2006HailOrr-The hail fell at Deer Lodge on Pelican Lake.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOrr-Many large trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOrr-Strong thunderstorm winds took down trees and phone lines in the Camp 5 Township, including the Elephant Lake and Ash River areas.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOrr-Trees were blown down and power was lost.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOrr-Several trees were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOrr-A microburst demolished an attached garage, broke windows in a home, lifted up the roof, and downed many trees. The wind speed is estimated.
May 2022HailOrr-no account filed
May 2022HailOrr-no account filed
August 2015HailOrr-no account filed
September 2012HailOrr-no account filed
June 2007HailOrr-no account filed
September 2004LightningOrr-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindOrr-no account filed
July 2000HailOrr-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Glendale1.5 miles7
Cusson3.4 miles7
Gheen6.0 miles9
Gheen Corner6.2 miles9
Haley10.5 miles11
Greaney11.7 miles8
Ash Lake12.3 miles7
Wakemup13.3 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 OrrAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228057The 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 662112. 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.