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Almora, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elmo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56551. The Survey maps it on the Parkers Prairie quadrangle.

Almora within Otter Tail 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.

In the county-history sources

50 words on this township

Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Elmo Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Elmo Township - 50 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Almora between 1992 and 2019, burning about 744 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2009Debris and open burning1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2019Debris and open burning92 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2004Debris and open burning29 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE FIRE
13 April 2003Debris and open burning114 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2006Debris and open burning25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2003Equipment and vehicle use470 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Almora in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAlmora-Broadcast Media relays a report of large trees blown down 1 mile east of Almora.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAlmora-Received a report of a large tree blown down. Time was estimated using radar analysis.
June 2016HailAlmora-Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail fell.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAlmora-Very strong winds rocked a large SUV while the vehicle was parked on the side of a highway.
July 2022HailAlmora-no account filed
July 2019HailAlmora-no account filed
May 2014HailAlmora-no account filed
August 2005HailAlmora-no account filed
September 2005HailAlmora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Henning6.7 miles9
Parkers Prairie6.7 miles9
Parkers Prairie Park6.7 miles9
Lyman9.0 miles9
Vining9.2 miles13
Wrightstown9.7 miles9
Woodland Park10.0 miles13
Deer Creek10.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639301. 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.