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Pine Point, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pine Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56575. It stands on Mission Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ponsford quadrangle. 281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,539 feet above sea level.

Pine Point within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Point fell from 338 to 281 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
2010338
2020281-57 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

758 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 758 fires within 5 miles of Pine Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,265 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 528 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
Arson/incendiarism528
Debris and open burning123
Misuse of fire by a minor71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota AgencySEC36
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyP-TOWN PLAYGROUND
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMinnesota AgencyDECOY FIRE
28 September 2014Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota AgencyMCFRY FIRE
23 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyLIMB
15 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencySOFTBALL
14 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyPTOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker 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
Ponsford0.5 miles10
Snellman6.3 miles10
Osage7.8 miles10
Two Inlets10.2 miles9
Goldenrod11.3 miles9
Wolf Lake12.2 miles9
Elbow Lake14.6 miles10
Elbow Lake Village14.7 miles10

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 Pine PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316629The 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 649489. 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.