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Blackhoof, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Blackhoof Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55707. The Survey maps it on the Wrenshall quadrangle.

Blackhoof within Carlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Blackhoof between 1992 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton 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 Blackhoof: 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
County Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackhoof in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBlackhoof-Multiple trees and a flagpole were downed at the reporter's location.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBlackhoof-Multiple trees were uprooted by the storm.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBlackhoof-A tree was down across a road.
October 2017FloodBlackhoof-Portions of County Road 8 west of County Road 103 east of Moose Lake was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Duesler2.8 miles9
Pleasant Valley4.1 miles8
Scotts Corner4.8 miles8
Holyoke6.0 miles9
Wrenshall7.2 miles8
Otter Creek7.6 miles8
Atkinson7.7 miles9
Nemadji7.9 miles7

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 Q122594621The 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 654608. 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.