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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.

Zemple within Itasca County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Zemple 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.

YearPeople Change
201093
202078-15 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

122 since 1992

Regional 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindZemple-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 2024HailZemple-no account filed
May 2022HailZemple-no account filed
May 2022HailZemple-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Deer River0.8 miles9
Ball Club8.0 miles9
Bass Brook9.4 miles10
Cohasset9.7 miles10
Bass Brook Court10.3 miles10
Suomi11.3 miles10
Lakeview Terrace12.5 miles11
North Star Moblie Home Park14.2 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 ZempleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924390The 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.