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Zimmerman, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Livonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55398. The Survey maps it on the Lake Fremont quadrangle. 6,189 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Zimmerman within Sherburne County

Population over time

2 figures

Zimmerman grew from 5,228 to 6,189 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
20105,228
20206,189+961 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

398 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Zimmerman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,034 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 62 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 burning172
Arson/incendiarism62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Recreation and ceremony46
Equipment and vehicle use37
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking7
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2

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
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeNO 6
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSherburne National Wildlife RefugeTALLAKSON
29 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherburne County

Storms near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zimmerman in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 25 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Three trees were reported down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Dispatch relayed multiple reports of trees down in Zimmerman. Time estimated by radar.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-A few trees were blown down south of Zimmerman.
May 2022HailZimmerman-There was a social media picture of 1 inch hail.
September 2013Heavy RainZimmerman-A trained observer measured 2.95 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes, southwest of Zimmerman.
May 2011HailZimmerman-Hail fell at the intersection of County Roads 1 and 32.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-A large tree was blown down northwest of Elk River.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Several large 24 foot diameter trees were uprooted in Zimmerman.
July 2007HailZimmerman-Occurred at intersection of County Road 4 and Highway 169.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Highway 169 and County road 9. Multiple trees down over highway.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-A tree was downed across Highway 169.
June 2004HailZimmerman-Quarter to golf ball sized hail fell.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Zimmerman-A weak tornado briefly touched down north of Highway 4 between 269th and 277th avenues west of Blue Lake. No damage was reported.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Large trees felled.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Large trees and powerlines blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Hundreds of trees blown down at Girl Scout Camp. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindZimmerman-Large branches and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
June 2024HailZimmerman-no account filed
August 2023HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2022HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2022HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2022HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2022HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2022HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2019HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2019HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2019HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2019HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2019HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2014HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 2012HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2011HailZimmerman-no account filed
July 2009HailZimmerman-no account filed
September 2007HailZimmerman-no account filed
August 2007HailZimmerman-no account filed
April 2002HailZimmerman-no account filed
June 2002HailZimmerman-no account filed
September 2002HailZimmerman-no account filed
May 1999Funnel CloudZimmerman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherburne 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
Zimmerman Terrace0.5 miles14
Baldwin5.0 miles11
Orrock7.8 miles14
Lake Orono Estates9.3 miles13
Bailey9.6 miles13
Elk River9.7 miles13
Big Lake11.3 miles13
Big Lake Estates11.5 miles13

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 ZimmermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227857The 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 646352. 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.