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Arendahl, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Arendahl Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55962. The Survey maps it on the Arendahl quadrangle.

Arendahl within Fillmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Arendahl between 1992 and 2008, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 1996Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 1994Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 1996Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore 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 Arendahl: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
L.J.'s Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

3 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arendahl in 3 storm reports in 2021: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Arendahl$40,000This was the fourth tornado of the night in Fillmore County. This EF1 tornado formed just south of the tiny town of Arendahl and was only on the ground for one minute as it moved rapidly northeast. The damage was limited to a large grove of trees northeast of Arendahl.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindArendahl$8,000Large trees were snapped in a cemetery near Arendahl.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindArendahl$5,000Trees were blown down and snapped off east of Arendahl.

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Peterson4.8 miles10
Rushford Village6.4 miles10
Whalan6.5 miles9
Bucksnort7.5 miles9
Lanesboro8.0 miles9
Rushford8.4 miles10
South Rushford8.4 miles10
Bratsberg9.7 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122546230The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639431. 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.