Two Harbors, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Two Harbors City. It lies in ZIP code area 55616. It stands on Skunk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Two Harbors quadrangle. 3,633 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.
On record in Two Harbors
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 9 records
Split Rock LighthouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1969
Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company Depotlisted 1983
John Dwan Office Buildinglisted 1992
EDNA G (tugboat)listed 1975
Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residencelisted 1983
Larsmont Schoollisted 1992
Two Harbors Carnegie Librarylisted 1986
Two Harbors Light Stationlisted 1984- Gooseberry Falls State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resourceslisted 1989
Population over time
2 figuresTwo Harbors fell from 3,745 to 3,633 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 | 3,745 | |
| 2020 | 3,633 | -112 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Two Harbors quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
144 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Two Harbors between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Harbors in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Harbors | $5,000 | The top part of a healthy pine tree was knocked over by the wind and punctured a garage roof. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Harbors | - | Trees up to 10 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Harbors | - | Several trees were blown down. For the second morning in a row, a large complex of severe thunderstorms formed over the western Dakotas in the evening and moved into northeast Minnesota early the following morning. Again, this was primarily a wind event, with no reports of large hail or tornadoes. One man was killed when lightning struck the tree he was standing under. Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 70 kts (80 mph) were observed as the squall line moved through the region. Many trees and power lines were blown down, causing extensive and widespread power and cable TV outages. Wind damage to boats, vehicles, buildings, and antennas also occurred, either directly or by falling trees. The hardest hit area extended from around Brainarrowrowd in Crow Wing County to near Grand Rapids in Itasca County, then northeast across the Iron Range of central St. Louis County, including the cities of Hibbing, Virginia, and Aurora. In some communities, trucks with plows were needed to clear roads made impassable by fallen trees. Thousands of electric customers were without power for at least 24 hours following the storm. The general manager for the Hibbing Public Utilities said it was the worst windstorm in at least 10 years. Other damage in Hibbing included construction signs and portable toilets that were tipped over. A fabric storage building was lifted by the wind, and an awning was ripped off the Pella Windows store. Trees touching power lines caused a few small fires. Other nearby communities suffering large numbers of downed trees and power outages were Kelly Lake, Chisholm, Nashwauk, Keewatin, and Leetonia. In Grand Rapids, power to half the city was out for hours and hundreds of power lines were down. Highway 169 south of the city was completely blocked by fallen trees. In Virginia, the Boyer True Value Hardware and Lumber store lost the roof from one of its buildings. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Harbors | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Two Harbors | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waldo | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Larsmont | 5.0 miles | 5 | |
| Stewart | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Silver Creek | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| York | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Knife River | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Alger | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Castle Danger | 11.2 miles | 11 |
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 Two Harbors | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q993483 | 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 658799. 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.







