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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.

Minto within Walsh County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Minto 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.

YearPeople Change
2010604
2020616+12 (+2%)

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

16 since 1993

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service20179
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service20178
1 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201909
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSEC. GRASS FIRE
6 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURN BAND 2
29 May 2019Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201907
23 May 2006Arson/incendiarism6.7 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictFOREST RIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this place

20 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023FloodMinto$1,000,000Minto 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 1993HailMinto$50,000A coal shed was blown down in Ardoch.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMinto$15,000The north wall and a west facing garage door were blown down by the wind and a tree fell on a garage.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMinto$500Numerous branches were blown down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMinto-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMinto-A few 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down. A nearby personal weather station reported a 55 mph wind gust.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMinto-The winds were estimated by firefighters in a truck.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinto-Large tree branches were blown down and crops were flattened.
July 2015FloodMinto-Ditches and fields were flooded between Minto and Warsaw.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinto-Trees were snapped in the Minto park.
July 2005HailMinto-This was the second time golfball sized hail fell, knocking the grain crop flat.
July 1997Flash FloodMinto-8.2 inches of rain caused flooding in low-lying areas.
June 2020HailMinto-no account filed
June 2020HailMinto-no account filed
September 2018HailMinto-no account filed
July 2005HailMinto-no account filed
July 2001HailMinto-no account filed
August 2001HailMinto-no account filed
June 1997HailMinto-no account filed
June 1997HailMinto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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
Herriott4.4 miles9
Voss4.5 miles9
Kellogg5.7 miles9
Ardoch6.0 miles9
Warsaw6.2 miles9
Forest River7.4 miles9
Grafton8.6 miles9
Veseleyville10.1 miles8

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 MintoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2442919The 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.