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Becida, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fern Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56678. The Survey maps it on the Lake Hattie quadrangle.

Becida within Hubbard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Becida between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 June 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Recreation and ceremony12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard County

Storms near this place

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Becida in 22 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBecida$500,000Ground survey and high resolution satellite confirmed a long swath of widespread destructive straight-line winds estimated between 80 and 90 mph across far northern Hubbard County. The surge of winds and associated 30 mile long damage swath started upstream in Clearwater County and spread across southern Beltrami and northern Hubbard county. The widest part of the swath was almost 12 miles wide from just north of Bemidji to its southern edge in northern Hubbard county. The highest winds and greatest damage were in the Bemidji area. There was approximately 53,609 acres of northern Hubbard County impacted with widespread tree damage within this single swath.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBecida$30,000The wind knocked down six to eight inch diameter tree branches.
June 2016LightningBecida$10,000A lightning strike started a fire at the Fern Township hall.
April 2013FloodBecida$5,000no account filed
March 2009FloodBecida$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBecida$100Tree limbs were blown down by the wind.
July 2023HailBecida-Public reports quarter to half-dollar sized hail in Becida.
July 2023HailBecida-Public reports hail 9 SW Bemidji with sizes ranging from peas to half-dollar.
August 2020HailBecida-The hail was mostly pea to nickel sized.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindBecida-A few trees were blown down.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindBecida-Large tree branches were blown down and a few 6 to 8 inch diameter poplar trees were snapped.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBecida-Metal roofing panels were torn off a barn.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBecida-The roof was blown off a garage. The time was estimated.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBecida-The new recreational area near LaSalle Lake had numerous trees blown down.
May 2010HailBecida-Hail from dime size to quarter size fell for about five minutes.
September 2018HailBecida-no account filed
July 2017HailBecida-no account filed
August 2012HailBecida-no account filed
August 2012HailBecida-no account filed
August 2000HailBecida-no account filed
June 1999HailBecida-no account filed
June 1999HailBecida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hubbard 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
Yola9.2 miles9
Lake George11.6 miles8
Kabekona Corner13.6 miles8
Nary13.7 miles9
Guthrie15.8 miles9
Laporte19.8 miles9
Farris20.1 miles9
Emmaville20.6 miles9

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 Q122556166The 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 639845. 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.