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Beroun, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mission Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55037. The Survey maps it on the Beroun quadrangle. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Beroun within Pine County

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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Beroun between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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 burning72
Equipment and vehicle use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism33
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 1999Natural1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beroun: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Hopkins Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beroun in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2020LightningBeroun$5,000Lightning struck a trailer home causing damage to the home.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeroun-Multiple trees were reported down near Beroun.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeroun-A large tree was down across Blueberry Island road and needed to be removed by the county public works department.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBeroun-Several large trees were blown down.
June 2022HailBeroun-no account filed
June 2002HailBeroun-no account filed
August 2002HailBeroun-no account filed
May 2001HailBeroun-no account filed
July 2000HailBeroun-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBeroun-no account filed
September 1998HailBeroun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Mission Creek4.1 miles13
Pine City5.8 miles12
Brook Park6.9 miles12
Hinckley7.0 miles8
Evergreen Park7.0 miles8
Henriette9.0 miles13
Rock Creek10.5 miles12
Friesland12.2 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.

Wikipedia article on BerounAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4894654The 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 639974. 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.