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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.

Strathcona within Roseau County

Population over time

2 figures

Strathcona 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.

YearPeople Change
201044
202025-19 (-43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

33 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
24 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1996Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.7 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2018Natural7.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 1997Debris and open burning65 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2009Arson/incendiarism12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roseau County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Flash FloodStrathcona$2,000Street flooding was reported in Strathcona. Several farm access roads were also flooded near town.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindStrathcona-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 2011HailStrathcona-A deck was covered with quarter sized hail. There were a few bigger ones, but not as large as half dollars.
July 2011Funnel CloudStrathcona-Two brief funnels were noted west and southwest from highway 32 along the Roseau and Marshall county line.
June 1997HailStrathcona-The ground was white with hail.
June 2020HailStrathcona-no account filed
August 2015HailStrathcona-no account filed
August 2015HailStrathcona-no account filed
August 2002HailStrathcona-no account filed
July 1999HailStrathcona-no account filed
July 1999HailStrathcona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roseau 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
Greenbush10.1 miles9
Leo14.9 miles12
Badger17.8 miles9
Haug18.4 miles9
Torfin23.3 miles8
Wannaska24.1 miles7
Fox24.3 miles9
Casperson25.6 miles8

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 StrathconaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1865935The 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.