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Sobieski, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sobieski City. It lies in ZIP code area 56345. The Survey maps it on the Little Falls West quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Sobieski within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Sobieski grew from 195 to 210 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
2010195
2020210+15 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Sobieski between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,076 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sobieski in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 2 funnel cloud, 2 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSobieski-A damage survey found dozens of scattered trees down in a mile wide swath. The damage was found to be from a downburst.
May 2012HailSobieski-no account filed
July 2011HailSobieski-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudSobieski-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudSobieski-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Flensburg4.5 miles12
Gregory5.5 miles12
Maple Leaf Court6.1 miles12
Little Falls6.3 miles12
Elmdale6.5 miles11
Bowlus7.7 miles11
Swanville9.8 miles10
Upsala9.8 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 SobieskiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1892132The 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 652216. 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.