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Adolph, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hermantown City. It lies in ZIP code area 55810. It stands on Rocky Run. The Survey maps it on the Adolph quadrangle.

Adolph within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

393 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 393 fires within 5 miles of Adolph between 1992 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Railroad operations and maintenance174
Debris and open burning99
Equipment and vehicle use43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adolph: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schubitzke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adolph in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAdolph$8,000Two 10-inch diameter trees were uprooted. Twelve to fourteen trees were snapped in half. The report was from the intersection of Morris Thomas Road and U.S. Highway 2.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAdolph-A tree was reported down at Gypsy Creek Farm.
June 2018Funnel CloudAdolph-Multiple 911 calls were received for a funnel cloud near the 4000 block of Solway Road.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAdolph-High winds brought power lines down around the intersection of Midway Road and US Highway 2. Lines were also down along US Highway 2.
June 2010HailAdolph-In addition to the hail, strong winds blew down small branches.
July 2023HailAdolph-no account filed
August 2018HailAdolph-no account filed
July 2006HailAdolph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Five Corners2.0 miles9
Hermantown3.0 miles15
Proctor3.6 miles20
Saint Paul Church3.7 miles15
Munger3.7 miles9
Simar4.1 miles9
Zenith Terrace4.6 miles20
Eldes Corner4.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660626. 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.