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Wrenshall, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Wrenshall City. It lies in ZIP code area 55797. The Survey maps it on the Wrenshall quadrangle. 428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Wrenshall within Carlton County

Population over time

2 figures

Wrenshall grew from 399 to 428 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
2010399
2020428+29 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Wrenshall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking9
Natural2
Fireworks1
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
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wrenshall: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Carlton County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Cherrie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrenshall in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWrenshall-A tree was reported down near the Wrenshall city hall.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWrenshall-Tree tops were broken off and power was out.
March 2025HailWrenshall-no account filed
July 2025HailWrenshall-no account filed
June 2016HailWrenshall-no account filed
May 2011HailWrenshall-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWrenshall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Alford1.0 miles9
Scotts Corner2.8 miles8
Thomson3.3 miles9
Carlton3.9 miles9
Brownell4.8 miles9
Pleasant Valley5.4 miles8
Frogner5.9 miles8
Esko6.2 miles9

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 WrenshallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227716The 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 654392. 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.