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Ranier, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Rainy Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56668. The Survey maps it on the Ranier quadrangle. 569 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Ranier within Koochiching County

On record in Ranier

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ranier grew from 145 to 569 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
2010145
2020569+424 (+292%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Ranier between 1992 and 2019, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural2

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2006Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1992Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ranier: 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ranier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boise Cascade PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
International Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kolinski Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oveson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ranier Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ranier Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ranier in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 hail, 1 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 2007HailRanier-Quarter-sized hail.
April 2005HailRanier-The hail fell for 10 minutes.
August 1995HailRanier-Numerous reports of broken windshields and glass. Sheetmetal and fiberglass damage to light buildings.
May 2022HailRanier-no account filed
May 2006HailRanier-no account filed
April 2005HailRanier-no account filed
May 2005HailRanier-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRanier-no account filed
August 1996HailRanier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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
Falls Junction0.8 miles10
Jameson1.1 miles10
South International Falls3.2 miles9
International Falls3.4 miles9
Spring Lodge Resort and Marina7.4 miles10
Thunderbird Resort8.6 miles10
Ericsburg8.7 miles8
Nakoda8.9 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 RanierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229260The 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 657979. 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.