Minto, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minto City. It lies in ZIP code area 58261. The Survey maps it on the Minto quadrangle. 616 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.
On record in Minto
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 2 records
Minto Schoollisted 1992
St. Joseph's Chapellisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresMinto grew from 604 to 616 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 | 604 | |
| 2020 | 616 | +12 (+2%) |
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.
- 1943 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Minto quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Minto between 1993 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20179 |
| 22 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20178 |
| 1 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201909 |
| 7 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SEC. GRASS FIRE |
| 6 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 May 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURN BAND 2 |
| 29 May 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201907 |
| 23 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.7 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | FOREST RIVER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minto in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Minto | $1,000,000 | Minto gage, on the Forest River. Crested at 9.25 ft, on April 17th at 08:30.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Minto | $50,000 | A coal shed was blown down in Ardoch. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | $15,000 | The north wall and a west facing garage door were blown down by the wind and a tree fell on a garage. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | $500 | Numerous branches were blown down. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | - | A few 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down. A nearby personal weather station reported a 55 mph wind gust. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | - | The winds were estimated by firefighters in a truck. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | - | Large tree branches were blown down and crops were flattened. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Minto | - | Ditches and fields were flooded between Minto and Warsaw. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minto | - | Trees were snapped in the Minto park. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Minto | - | This was the second time golfball sized hail fell, knocking the grain crop flat. |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Minto | - | 8.2 inches of rain caused flooding in low-lying areas. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Minto | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Minto | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herriott | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Voss | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Kellogg | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Ardoch | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Warsaw | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Forest River | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Grafton | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Veseleyville | 10.1 miles | 8 |
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 Minto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2442919 | 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 1030252. 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.






