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Minong, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Minong town. It lies in ZIP code area 54859. The Survey maps it on the Minong quadrangle. 548 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Minong within Washburn County

On record in Minong

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Minong grew from 527 to 548 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
2010527
2020548+21 (+4%)

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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Minong between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 2003Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCEMENT PLANT
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHED
22 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1995Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washburn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Minong: 10 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Frog Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Genard Amundson Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Genard Amundson Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Larry Nelson Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Minong Depot Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minong Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Robert Link Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
T. W. Smith Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waggoner Brothers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Washburn County Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washburn County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minong in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2002LightningMinong1 killedno account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMinong$10,000Widespread damage to trees either snapped or uprooted centered around the Minong and Chicog areas.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMinong$1,000Trees were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinong-A power line was knocked down by the winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinong-A living 7' pine tree was down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindMinong-There were several trees down along US 77 East of Minong.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMinong-A roof was blown off a business along Route 53. Estimated wind speed is derived from the NWS WFO Duluth Storm Survey derived Wind Damage Swath Map of this episode.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMinong-Trees were blown down on southbound U. S. Highway 53.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMinong-Numerous trees down. People trapped in their campers by fallen trees were rescued by law enforcement. There was also nickel size hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMinong-Numerous trees were blown down in Minong Township. Nickel size hail fell.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMinong-Numerous trees were blown down across the Bass Lake and Stanberry townships.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMinong-Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2018HailMinong-no account filed
August 2017HailMinong-no account filed
August 2017HailMinong-no account filed
May 2016HailMinong-no account filed
July 2015HailMinong-no account filed
September 2014HailMinong-no account filed
August 2008HailMinong-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMinong-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMinong-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMinong-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMinong-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washburn 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
Chittamo6.1 miles9
Lampson8.0 miles8
Harmon (historical)8.6 miles9
Stanberry12.3 miles9
Springbrook12.7 miles8
Earl13.5 miles8
Trego13.8 miles8
Spooner19.4 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 MinongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q649628The 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 1569582. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.