Rutledge, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Rutledge City. It lies in ZIP code area 55795. It stands on Pine River. The Survey maps it on the Willow River quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRutledge fell from 229 to 212 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 212 | -17 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Moose Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Willow River quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
160 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Rutledge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 557 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 | 58 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rutledge in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | Trees were falling along Minnesota 61 as the spotter was driving between Willow River and Rutledge. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | There was a 14 inch diameter maple tree broken near the base. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | There were numerous trees down along and over County Road 61. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | Two trees were blown down along the Kettle River near Interstate 35. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Rutledge | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Rutledge | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutledge | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow River | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Finlayson | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Askov | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Banning | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Denham | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Sturgeon Lake | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Groningen | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Ellson | 8.5 miles | 6 |
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 Rutledge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229249 | 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 650434. 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.
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.




