BlockAngle Inlet, Minnesota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1963 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Angle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56711. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angle Inlet quadrangle.
On record in Angle Inlet
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
- Northwest Pointlisted 1973
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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.
- 1963 USGS Kenora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Angle Inlet quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Angle Inlet quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Angle Inlet in 2012, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angle Inlet in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angle Inlet | $2,000 | Trees were downed along county road 49. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angle Inlet | $500 | Several trees were downed. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angle Inlet | - | Around 68 trees were uprooted at Angle Outpost Resort. Three 700-pound piers were pulled out of the dock area and three boats were tossed on shore. The strong winds blew for about 15 minutes. Over one thousand trees were blown down from French Narrows and Fort Charles down into the Northwest Angle. Windows were blown out of several cabins in the area. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | Nickle to quarter-sized hail was reported. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Angle Inlet | - | The tornado tracked from the east end of the Northwest Angle, out onto the Lake of the Woods to about 3 miles south of Oak Island. The tornado-waterspout was seen from the shore of Little Oak Island. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off on the Northwest Angle. Estimated peak winds were 100 mph. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Saint Charles | 4.5 miles | 6 | |
| Penasse | 5.7 miles | 6 | |
| Long Point | 26.0 miles | 7 | |
| Arnesén | 26.8 miles | 9 | |
| Birch Beach | 28.0 miles | 7 | |
| Wheelers Point | 40.0 miles | 7 | |
| Williams | 40.2 miles | 8 | |
| Hackett | 40.8 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639371. 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.