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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.

Rutledge within Pine County

Population over time

2 figures

Rutledge 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.

YearPeople Change
2010229
2020212-17 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

160 since 1992

Regional 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 burning58
Equipment and vehicle use35
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindRutledge-Trees were falling along Minnesota 61 as the spotter was driving between Willow River and Rutledge.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRutledge-There was a 14 inch diameter maple tree broken near the base.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRutledge-There were numerous trees down along and over County Road 61.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindRutledge-Two trees were blown down along the Kettle River near Interstate 35.
July 2023HailRutledge-no account filed
July 2023HailRutledge-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRutledge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Willow River4.0 miles7
Finlayson5.0 miles7
Askov7.0 miles7
Banning7.2 miles7
Denham7.9 miles7
Sturgeon Lake8.4 miles7
Groningen8.4 miles7
Ellson8.5 miles6

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 RutledgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229249The 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.