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Anglim, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crookston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56716. The Survey maps it on the Crookston quadrangle.

Anglim within Polk County

On record in Anglim

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Anglim between 2006 and 2012, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresGlacial RidgeGLACIAL RIDGE 1
17 March 2012Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anglim in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
August 2024Flash FloodAnglim$500Broadcast Media Reported roads flooded and drainage outlets overwhelmed on South Ash street in Crookston MN.
August 2024FloodAnglim$500Public reported basement flooded and street drainage overwhelmed.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAnglim-Public reports trees down on the northeastern side of town via facebook.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAnglim-Peak wind was measured at the Crookston Airport /KCKN/. Several trees were reported blown down in the communities of fisher and Crookston.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAnglim-The wind gust was measured at the Crookston airport.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAnglim-A tree was snapped in a farm yard.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAnglim-Steel roofing was torn back along the southeast quarter of a 60x80 foot steel clad pole shed at the Northwest Experimental Station, north of the campus of the University of Minnesota at Crookston.
July 2017HailAnglim-The hail fell along the Crookston bypass, between Gentilly and Crookston.
May 2016HailAnglim-It hailed multiple times with a lot of pea to dime sized hail.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindAnglim-The gust was measured by the AWOS at the Crookston airport.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAnglim-Many large tree branches were blown down on the north side of Crookston. An outhouse was blown over at a construction site.
June 2018HailAnglim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Noyes Junction0.4 miles9
Forest Knolls Estates1.2 miles9
Crookston1.5 miles9
Riverview Terrace2.6 miles9
Carman Terrace2.9 miles9
Crookston Junction3.0 miles9
Wilds4.0 miles10
Hixon4.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654570. 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.