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Minnesota, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Doerun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31744. The Survey maps it on the Doerun quadrangle.

Minnesota within Colquitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Minnesota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 842 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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 burning94
Arson/incendiarism23
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

7 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minnesota in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
November 2014Thunderstorm WindMinnesota$1,000Two trees were blown down on Hagin Still Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMinnesota-Trees were blown down on Highway 133N to the south of Doerun.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMinnesota-A tree was blown down near Highway 270 east of Doerun.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMinnesota-Four inch diameter tree branches were snapped.
March 2019HailMinnesota-Quarter size hail was reported just east of Doerun.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMinnesota-A spotter estimated wind gusts near 60 mph near Highway 270 and Highway 33.
May 2022HailMinnesota-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colquitt 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
Doerun0.7 miles9
Ticknor2.3 miles9
Sigsbee4.2 miles10
Terrace (historical)4.8 miles9
New Elm5.0 miles10
Schley6.9 miles9
Hartsfield7.4 miles8
Marble (historical)7.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332401. 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.