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Strandquist, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Strandquist City. It lies in ZIP code area 56758. The Survey maps it on the Strandquist quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Strandquist within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Strandquist grew from 69 to 70 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
201069
202070+1 (+1%)

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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Strandquist between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,832 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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
Arson/incendiarism59
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2012Arson/incendiarism88 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2012Arson/incendiarism29 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use75 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use120 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strandquist in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindStrandquist$40,000Three wooden power poles were snapped along highway 59. Numerous nearby poplar trees were also snapped.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindStrandquist$15,000Strong winds tipped over a grain dryer, ripped a steel quonset storage shed from its foundation, and tossed a hay ring a half mile.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindStrandquist$5,00012 telephone poles were downed along Highway 59 from Strandquist to 3 miles south of Karlstad.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindStrandquist$2,00012 large oak trees were flattened by the wind.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindStrandquist$1,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindStrandquist$500no account filed
September 2024Thunderstorm WindStrandquist-Public reports via social media large tree down, 6-8 inches in diameter.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStrandquist-A few poplar and ash trees were snapped near intersection of Hwy 59 and CR6. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2019HailStrandquist-Pea to nickel sized hail was reported.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindStrandquist-Numerous large tree branches were broken down and several large trees, both oak and poplar, were snapped off in shelterbelts and groves across portions of central Nelson Park and Lincoln townships.
August 2001Flash FloodStrandquist-Basement flooding was reported.
August 2013HailStrandquist-no account filed
July 2008HailStrandquist-no account filed
June 2006HailStrandquist-no account filed
July 2003HailStrandquist-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Ellerth9.5 miles10
Englund9.6 miles9
Florian10.1 miles9
Newfolden11.2 miles10
Foldahl12.1 miles9
Middle River15.5 miles9
Viking18.9 miles10
Holt19.2 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 StrandquistAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227661The 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 652716. 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.