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.
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
- Bishop Stanislaus Vincent Bona Cabinlisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresMinong 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 527 | |
| 2020 | 548 | +21 (+4%) |
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.
- 1947 USGS Minong quadrangle1:48000
- 1949 USGS Minong quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Minong quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Solon Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Minong quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
90 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | CEMENT PLANT |
| 4 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SHED |
| 22 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frog Creek Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Genard Amundson Sand Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Genard Amundson Sand Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Larry Nelson Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Minong Depot Gravel Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Minong Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Robert Link Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| T. W. Smith Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Waggoner Brothers Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Washburn County Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
23 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Lightning | Minong | 1 killed | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | $10,000 | Widespread damage to trees either snapped or uprooted centered around the Minong and Chicog areas. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | $1,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | A power line was knocked down by the winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | A living 7' pine tree was down. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | There were several trees down along US 77 East of Minong. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | Trees were blown down on southbound U. S. Highway 53. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | Numerous trees down. People trapped in their campers by fallen trees were rescued by law enforcement. There was also nickel size hail. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | Numerous trees were blown down in Minong Township. Nickel size hail fell. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | Numerous trees were blown down across the Bass Lake and Stanberry townships. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Minong | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minong | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chittamo | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Lampson | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Harmon (historical) | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Stanberry | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Springbrook | 12.7 miles | 8 | |
| Earl | 13.5 miles | 8 | |
| Trego | 13.8 miles | 8 | |
| Spooner | 19.4 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 Minong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q649628 | 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 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.






