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Pine River, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Pine River City. It lies in ZIP code area 56474. It stands on Behler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine River quadrangle. 911 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Pine River within Cass County

On record in Pine River

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

Population over time

2 figures

Pine River fell from 944 to 911 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
2010944
2020911-33 (-3%)

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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Pine River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
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
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine River: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine River in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPine River$1,500Several people reported trees down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPine River-Several small to medium trees were reported down and were snapped near the base.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPine River-Multiple trees were down in the Pine River area.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPine River-Multiple trees greater than 12 inches in diameter were downed along Hessman Hill Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPine River-Tree branches of 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter were downed by the storm.
August 2020Funnel CloudPine River-A funnel cloud was observed just above the tree tops and exhibited strong rotation.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPine River-An 18 to 24 diameter tree was blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPine River-Trees were blown down.
June 2005HailPine River-Also, winds were blowing at 40 mph.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPine River-Sixty-three trees were uprooted at the Pine River Country Club.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPine River-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindPine River-Numerous trees were blown down.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindPine River-The strong winds lasted five minutes, uprooting 25 to 30 trees, including four 4-foot diameter oaks.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindPine River-Several trees were blown down, and there was damage to a garage. The wind speed is estimated.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPine River-Numerous trees and power poles were blown down. The hardest hit areas were from Longville to Outing. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2024HailPine River-no account filed
May 2022HailPine River-no account filed
September 2019HailPine River-no account filed
June 2019HailPine River-no account filed
September 2018HailPine River-no account filed
September 2018HailPine River-no account filed
June 2012HailPine River-no account filed
July 2010HailPine River-no account filed
June 2008HailPine River-no account filed
June 2008HailPine River-no account filed
June 2008HailPine River-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPine River-no account filed
March 2004HailPine River-no account filed
May 2001HailPine River-no account filed
August 2000HailPine River-no account filed
August 2000HailPine River-no account filed
July 1999HailPine River-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPine River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Chickamaw Beach2.0 miles10
Mildred4.1 miles9
Backus9.2 miles9
Pontoria10.6 miles9
Graff12.6 miles9
Oshawa13.8 miles9
Hackensack15.9 miles10
Lake Shore16.2 miles15

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 RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228130The 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 649494. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.