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Belle Prairie, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 56345. It lies near Roscoe Island. The Survey maps it on the Belle Prairie quadrangle.

Belle Prairie within Morrison County

On record in Belle Prairie

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

8 surveys from 13 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Belle Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 849 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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 burning57
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Fireworks1

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 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belle Prairie: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, 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
Mississippi River Area ClaysTitanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, SilicaOccurrence
Schling Pit WestSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Prairie in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBelle Prairie-Tree limbs blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2008HailBelle Prairie-no account filed
July 2008HailBelle Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Camp Ripley Junction2.6 miles13
Maple Leaf Court3.9 miles12
Little Falls4.2 miles12
Gregory6.6 miles12
Freedhem7.0 miles12
Randall9.6 miles12
Vawter9.7 miles10
Sobieski9.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639892. 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.