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.
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 figuresPine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 944 | |
| 2020 | 911 | -33 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
176 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 89 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 3 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
33 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | $1,500 | Several people reported trees down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Several small to medium trees were reported down and were snapped near the base. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Multiple trees were down in the Pine River area. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Multiple trees greater than 12 inches in diameter were downed along Hessman Hill Road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Tree branches of 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter were downed by the storm. |
| August 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Pine River | - | A funnel cloud was observed just above the tree tops and exhibited strong rotation. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | An 18 to 24 diameter tree was blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Pine River | - | Also, winds were blowing at 40 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Sixty-three trees were uprooted at the Pine River Country Club. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | The strong winds lasted five minutes, uprooting 25 to 30 trees, including four 4-foot diameter oaks. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Several trees were blown down, and there was damage to a garage. The wind speed is estimated. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | Numerous trees and power poles were blown down. The hardest hit areas were from Longville to Outing. Wind speed is estimated. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Pine River | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine River | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chickamaw Beach | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Mildred | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Backus | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Pontoria | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Graff | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Oshawa | 13.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hackensack | 15.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lake Shore | 16.2 miles | 15 |
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 River | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2228130 | 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 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.






