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White Earth, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in White Earth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56591. The Survey maps it on the White Earth quadrangle. 522 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

White Earth within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

White Earth fell from 580 to 522 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
2010580
2020522-58 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

820 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 820 fires within 5 miles of White Earth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,583 acres in total. None started naturally. 548 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
Arson/incendiarism548
Debris and open burning181
Misuse of fire by a minor50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes3
Smoking1

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
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Agency550FIRE
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota AgencyBARKSKINS
1 June 1997Arson/incendiarism180 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyCRIB FIRE
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyRAIN 2
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyRAIN 3
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota AgencyCATTAIL DITCH
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota AgencyRAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Earth in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2010Flash FloodWhite Earth$10,000Water flowed over Becker County 109 south of White Earth. Several other secondary roads near the Becker and Mahnomen county line were flooded or washed out due to the excessive rain.
June 2024HailWhite Earth-Public reports large hail in White Earth MN.
May 2023HailWhite Earth-Becker county EM reports nickels to quarters.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWhite Earth-Several trees were blown down along county road 144.
May 2019HailWhite Earth-Lots of dime to nickel sized hail was reported, with a few up to quarter size.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWhite Earth-Roofing and siding were torn off a trailer home and numerous large branches were blown down near Nett Lake.
August 2018HailWhite Earth-Dime to quarter sized hail fell with very heavy rain.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWhite Earth-The roof was torn off a home on Fishhook Lake.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWhite Earth-Several small to medium sized trees were blown down.
June 2007Funnel CloudWhite Earth-Spotters at the Indian Health Service observed a garbage bag spiral into the updraft area of the storm, but no touchdown or damage occurred.
June 2005Flash FloodWhite Earth-Water flowed over county road 34 near Strawberry Lake.
June 2017HailWhite Earth-no account filed
August 2015HailWhite Earth-no account filed
July 2010HailWhite Earth-no account filed
May 2002HailWhite Earth-no account filed
July 2002HailWhite Earth-no account filed
July 2000HailWhite Earth-no account filed
August 2000HailWhite Earth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
Ogema4.3 miles9
Richwood8.5 miles10
Callaway8.6 miles9
Westbury12.9 miles9
Elbow Lake Village15.8 miles10
Elbow Lake16.2 miles10
Audubon17.7 miles11
Rochert18.3 miles11

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 White EarthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2615313The 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 654079. 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.