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Blomford, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Isanti Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55040. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Blomford within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Blomford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blomford in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBlomford-Trees measuring 8 inches in diameter snapped halfway up from the base near Cty Rd 5 and Durant St. East of Isanti.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBlomford-A storm survey was conducted in eastern Isanti County and revealed storm damage to areas east of Blomford, Minnesota. Several trees were uprooted east of Blomford, Minnesota.
July 1995Tornado (F1)Blomford-The tornado was on the ground from Blomford to Stacy. The tornado struck Stacy at 2005 CST. Trees down and significant crop damage on the southeast side of Stacy. This was an estimated width.
June 2002HailBlomford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Weber2.0 miles12
Stanley3.5 miles11
Bodum3.6 miles11
Minnesota Boys Town4.3 miles11
Spring Lake5.0 miles12
Edgewood5.3 miles11
Isanti5.6 miles12
Isanti Estates5.8 miles12

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 BlomfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4927414The 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 640266. 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.