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Ball Club, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowstring Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56636. The Survey maps it on the Ball Club quadrangle.

Ball Club within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Ball Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,177 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 116 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
Arson/incendiarism116
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Natural2

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
22 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestWEST BALL CLUB FIRE
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreChippewa National ForestSNAKE
21 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestLONELY FIRE
13 August 1996Natural2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2015Debris and open burning9.8 acresChippewa National ForestSWAMP FIRE
9 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ball Club in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 2016HailBall Club-The hail lasted for about 2 minutes. The largest stones were about the size of nickels.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBall Club-A couple of 8 to 10 diameter trees were blown down. The power was out.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBall Club-Widespread wind damage occurred.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBall Club-Numerous trees were blown down along the northwest side of Ball Club Lake. Some of the trees were 30 inches in diameter.
August 2002HailBall Club-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBall Club-no account filed
June 1999HailBall Club-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBall Club-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBall Club-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Deer River7.6 miles9
Zemple8.0 miles9
Suomi15.0 miles10
Inger16.0 miles9
Bass Brook16.5 miles10
Bowstring16.7 miles9
Cohasset17.3 miles10
Bass Brook Court18.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 655201. 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.