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Turtle River, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Turtle River City. It lies in ZIP code area 56601. The Survey maps it on the Turtle River quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Turtle River within Beltrami County

Population over time

2 figures

Turtle River grew from 77 to 88 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
201077
202088+11 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Turtle River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestNOMA LAKE
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestTURTLE RIVER
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Turtle River: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Barthelemy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bemidji Blacktop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jerome Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kelly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ray Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thorson Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turtle River in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindTurtle River$5,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTurtle River-Large trees blown down.
June 2018HailTurtle River-Very heavy rain also fell.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTurtle River-Several large trees were snapped or uprooted.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Turtle River-The tornado briefly touched down.
June 2007HailTurtle River-no account filed
July 2001HailTurtle River-no account filed
August 2000HailTurtle River-no account filed
June 1996HailTurtle River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Woodland Park5.3 miles11
Lavinia5.9 miles11
Tenstrike6.3 miles9
Birchmont6.4 miles11
Secluded Acres8.1 miles10
Andrusia8.4 miles9
Hines9.3 miles9
Werner9.3 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 Turtle RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1837550The 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 658777. 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.