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Tamarack, Minnesota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Tamarack City. It lies in ZIP code area 55787. The Survey maps it on the Tamarack quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Tamarack within Aitkin County

Population over time

2 figures

Tamarack fell from 94 to 62 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
201094
202062-32 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Tamarack between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,481 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tamarack: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Aitkin County Peat BogsPeatProducer
Mel Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mel Johnson Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamarack in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTamarack-A gust of 59 mph was recorded by the Tamarack MNDOT RWIS station.
March 2025HailTamarack-no account filed
May 2022HailTamarack-no account filed
May 2022HailTamarack-no account filed
August 2022HailTamarack-no account filed
September 2019HailTamarack-no account filed
September 2019HailTamarack-no account filed
August 2018HailTamarack-no account filed
August 2000HailTamarack-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTamarack-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTamarack-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindTamarack-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Grayling4.6 miles5
Sheshebee7.4 miles5
Lawler7.8 miles6
Minnewawa8.7 miles6
Balsam9.6 miles6
McGregor10.2 miles5
East Lake11.1 miles5
Ronald14.1 miles7

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 TamarackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2045923The 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 652995. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.