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Plummer, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Emardville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56748. The Survey maps it on the Plummer quadrangle. 276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

Plummer within Red Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Plummer fell from 292 to 276 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
2010292
2020276-16 (-5%)

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.

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plummer in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010Flash FloodPlummer$10,000Numerous farm fields were flooded across the central and eastern portions of Red Lake County.
July 2001Flash FloodPlummer$1,000Water was reported over Highway 1.
August 2025HailPlummer-Measured hail stone shown with ruler in picture shared on social media south of Plummer. Hail stone was picked up 45 minutes after it fell. Time estimated by radar.
July 2022HailPlummer-Received a public report of up to penny sized hail and very heavy rain.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPlummer-A few large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPlummer-Metal roofing was pulled off a bank building, which caused water damage inside. Trees were blown down in town too.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPlummer-Large branches were blown down and shingles were torn off.
June 2002Flash FloodPlummer-The intersection of county road 1 and highway 59 was under water.
August 2015HailPlummer-no account filed
June 2010HailPlummer-no account filed
May 2010HailPlummer-no account filed
May 2008HailPlummer-no account filed
June 2007HailPlummer-no account filed
May 2005HailPlummer-no account filed
May 2002HailPlummer-no account filed
May 2001HailPlummer-no account filed
August 2001HailPlummer-no account filed
August 2001HailPlummer-no account filed
June 1999HailPlummer-no account filed
August 1998HailPlummer-no account filed
May 1996HailPlummer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Lake 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
Brooks7.0 miles10
Terrebonne7.3 miles10
Garnes8.5 miles10
Oklee11.1 miles10
Red Lake Falls12.5 miles10
Roland14.1 miles10
Perault14.8 miles10
Delorme16.6 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 PlummerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924351The 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 649597. 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.

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.