Zemple, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Zemple City. It lies in ZIP code area 56636. It stands on Deer River. The Survey maps it on the Deer River quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.
On record in Zemple
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Itasca Lumber Company Superintendent's Houselisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresZemple fell from 93 to 78 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 | 93 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -15 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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 Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Deer River quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Pokegama Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Deer River quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
122 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Zemple between 1992 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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 burning | 60 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zemple in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Zemple | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts to 70 mph. There were a lot trees blown down across the county roads in and near Deer River. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Zemple | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Zemple | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Zemple | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer River | 0.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ball Club | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bass Brook | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Cohasset | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Bass Brook Court | 10.3 miles | 10 | |
| Suomi | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lakeview Terrace | 12.5 miles | 11 | |
| North Star Moblie Home Park | 14.2 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 Zemple | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1924390 | 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 659083. 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.






