Vining, Minnesota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vining City. It lies in ZIP code area 56588. The Survey maps it on the Vining quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVining fell from 78 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 78 | |
| 2020 | 62 | -16 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1912 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Vining quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Vining between 1998 and 2019, burning about 201 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2005 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 92 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | LAKE FIRE |
| 17 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 December 2002 | Debris and open burning | 44 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vining in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Tornado (EF2) | Vining | $200,000 | The tornado, wrapped in heavy rain and downburst winds, snapped multiple power poles at three points along its path. It also tossed calving sheds and flipped an irrigation system, while surrounding winds blew down trees in and around its path. Peak winds were estimated at 115 mph. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Vining | - | A persistent funnel cloud briefly touched down. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Vining | - | Quarter to half dollar sized hail was accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| July 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Vining | - | A brief touchdown was viewed and photographed by spotters located near Vining. A few trees in a shelterbelt were snapped roughly eight to ten feet above ground level. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Vining | - | The large hail stripped the leaves off corn. Five to six inches of rain also fell. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vining | - | Trees were uprooted on the shoreline of East Battle Lake. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vining | - | Several trees fell at the Lutheran Island Camp on East Battle Lake, knocking down power lines. Trees also fell on a piece of playground equipment, a cabin, and two cars. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Vining | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nirvana | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Woodland Park | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Clitherall | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Henning | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Inglewood | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Almora | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Battle Lake | 9.4 miles | 13 | |
| Urbank | 9.8 miles | 9 |
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 Vining | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1880998 | 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 653669. 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.







