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Osakis, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Osakis City. It lies in ZIP code area 56360. The Survey maps it on the Osakis quadrangle. 1,771 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.

Osakis within Douglas County

On record in Osakis

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

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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Osakis between 1992 and 2014, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
30 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictTENHOFF
3 May 1997Smoking25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2011Debris and open burning26 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 1994Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2010Debris and open burning12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osakis in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOsakis$5,000Several power poles were tipped sideways and walls were blown out in a large steel shed.
July 2024Funnel CloudOsakis-Video and photos of a funnel over Lake Osakis were provided. It was not possible to determine if there was any ground contact. The time was estimated based on radar.
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Osakis-This tornado mostly moved over a soybean field, but did clip a grove of trees. Video of the tornado was filmed by a storm chaser.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOsakis-A power line was blown down near Osakis.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOsakis-A power line was blown down near County Road 3, and Bird Lake Road.
May 2016Funnel CloudOsakis-A storm chaser observed a funnel cloud west of West Union.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Osakis-The last tornado in a series touched down in an open field. It was recorded on video by multiple storm chasers.
June 2009HailOsakis-Trained spotters observed numerous nickel size hail stones around the Osakis, Minnesota area.
June 2005HailOsakis-Dime sized hail fell at the Interstate 94 exit to Osakis.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOsakis-Trees were downed onto power lines at the intersection of Highway 27 and County Road 3.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOsakis-Several trees down. The wind also demolished a trailer house.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindOsakis-Two trees damaged. Wind estimated.
August 1997HailOsakis-Hail piled up in small drifts. Gardens and crops damaged by wind driven hail.
August 2021HailOsakis-no account filed
July 2007HailOsakis-no account filed
August 2006HailOsakis-no account filed
July 2000HailOsakis-no account filed
September 1999HailOsakis-no account filed
August 1994HailOsakis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Nelson6.1 miles11
Belle River9.5 miles9
Carlos10.4 miles11
Hiview Park10.5 miles11
Forada11.9 miles10
Alexandria12.0 miles9
Miltona14.3 miles9
Rose City14.5 miles9

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 OsakisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004353The 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 649011. 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.