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.
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
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52listed 1989
LeMoine Buildinglisted 1989
Orr Roadside Parking Arealisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresOrr 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 211 | -56 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS International Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Orr quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Orr quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Crane Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
47 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 July 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | $2,000 | A tree about 12 to 14 inches in diameter was blown over during the storm onto power poles and broke them. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | 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 2019 | Tornado (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 2011 | Heavy Rain | Orr | - | One hour rainfall of 1.24 inches was reported. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Orr | - | The hail fell at Deer Lodge on Pelican Lake. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | Many large trees were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | Strong thunderstorm winds took down trees and phone lines in the Camp 5 Township, including the Elephant Lake and Ash River areas. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | Trees were blown down and power was lost. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Orr | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Orr | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Orr | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Orr | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Orr | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Lightning | Orr | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orr | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Orr | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Orr | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228057 | The 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.





