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Palisade, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56469. The Survey maps it on the Palisade quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,237 feet above sea level.

Palisade within Aitkin County

Population over time

2 figures

Palisade fell from 167 to 162 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
2010167
2020162-5 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Palisade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,204 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 August 1998Debris and open burning15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use95 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 1996Natural10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palisade in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPalisade-County dispatch reported multiple trees and powerlines down in the community of Palisade.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Three large oak trees were blown over.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Four large oak trees were down at the spotter's location.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPalisade-A large oak tree was snapped four to six feet from the base.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindPalisade-A medium-sized tree was downed across a county road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Flag poles were blown over by the wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPalisade-A small portion of a barn roof was torn off during the storm.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Several large trees were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Many trees were blown down along Highway 22.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPalisade-Numerous trees were blown down along Highway 232.
June 2022HailPalisade-no account filed
June 2022HailPalisade-no account filed
August 2000HailPalisade-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPalisade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Waukenabo6.2 miles10
Waldeck6.9 miles10
Bain7.6 miles5
Libby9.9 miles6
Hassman10.1 miles10
Kimberly10.6 miles6
Minnewawa11.4 miles6
McGregor11.8 miles5

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 PalisadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228143The 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 649121. 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.