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Westport, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Westport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56385. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Westport within Pope County

Population over time

2 figures

Westport fell from 57 to 44 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
201057
202044-13 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Westport between 2004 and 2018, burning about 346 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 April 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2004Debris and open burning26 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictPOPE WF
18 October 2018Debris and open burning307 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictSCHULTZ LAKE WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westport in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWestport-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
August 1996HailWestport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Villard5.4 miles10
Grove Lake7.0 miles8
Sedan10.5 miles8
Pine Hill Park11.2 miles9
Glenwood12.6 miles8
Long Beach13.9 miles8
Terrace16.3 miles9
Lowry18.6 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 WestportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q643321The 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 654036. 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.