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Proctor, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Proctor City. It lies in ZIP code area 55810. The Survey maps it on the West Duluth quadrangle. 3,120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Proctor within St. Louis County

On record in Proctor

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

Proctor grew from 3,057 to 3,120 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
20103,057
20203,120+63 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Proctor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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
Railroad operations and maintenance109
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Proctor: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Proctor in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 6 hail, 4 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
September 2018Thunderstorm WindProctor-A tree snapped by the wind landed on a garage while another tree was uprooted in the adjacent yard.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindProctor-A 40 foot tall tree was snapped in half. Many smaller trees were also damaged or blown down by the thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindProctor-An aluminum flag pole was snapped in half by the wind.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindProctor-Trees were blown down along the Willard Munger State Trail.
June 2014HailProctor-no account filed
May 2012HailProctor-no account filed
August 2011HailProctor-no account filed
July 2010HailProctor-no account filed
May 2009HailProctor-no account filed
June 2002HailProctor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Zenith Terrace1.0 miles20
Bayview1.6 miles20
West Duluth2.2 miles20
Saint Paul Church2.7 miles15
Riverside2.8 miles20
Smithville3.0 miles20
Oneota3.2 miles20
Adolph3.6 miles9

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 ProctorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1838838The 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 662232. 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.