Strathcona, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56759. The Survey maps it on the Strathcona quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStrathcona fell from 44 to 25 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 | 44 | |
| 2020 | 25 | -19 (-43%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1918 USGS Greenbush quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Strathcona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Hallock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Strathcona between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9,896 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.7 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | 7.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strathcona in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Strathcona | $2,000 | Street flooding was reported in Strathcona. Several farm access roads were also flooded near town. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strathcona | - | 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 Deer and Lind townships. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Strathcona | - | A deck was covered with quarter sized hail. There were a few bigger ones, but not as large as half dollars. |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Strathcona | - | Two brief funnels were noted west and southwest from highway 32 along the Roseau and Marshall county line. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Strathcona | - | The ground was white with hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Strathcona | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Strathcona | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Strathcona | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Strathcona | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Strathcona | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Strathcona | - | 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.
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 Strathcona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1865935 | 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 652719. 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.






