BlockBlue Grass, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wing River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56477. The Survey maps it on the Blue Grass quadrangle. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Blue Grass quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Detroit Lakes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Blue Grass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 714 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning | 40 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Grass in 21 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Hail | Blue Grass | $50,000 | There was some localized flooding from the heavy rain and a report of basement flooding. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Blue Grass | $10,000 | Four to five inches of rain fell, flooding a yard. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | Widespread downburst wind damage with large tree branches and limbs broken across the eastern half of Leaf River Township, and the western half of Wing River Township. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | Widespread downburst wind damage noted, with large tree branches and limbs broken across eastern Rockford and western North Germany Townships. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | Pea to dime sized hail fell. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | The hail was mostly pea sized. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | One tree was snapped with a lot of other tree damage. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | Brief quarter sized hail was followed by dime sized hail. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | Several trees were snapped in and around Rockwood Township, including the city of Sebeka. At one farmstead, several small calf hutches and one large super hutch were tossed about in a pasture. A pine tree was snapped over onto the roof of a house. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | Three large jack pines were blown down across a fence. One of the trees also fell onto the roof of a house. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | A birch tree was blown down near Lyons State Forest. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Blue Grass | - | The tornado tracked intermittently from along a road into inaccessible forest and swamp land. Several poplar trees with diameters of 12 inches or more were snapped at ground level or up to ten feet above ground level. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| July 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Blue Grass | - | The tornado snapped several oak, pine, and poplar trees along its intermittent path. It also cracked or snapped at least two power poles, shifted a barn off its foundation, and peeled siding and roofing off a couple of homes and farm buildings along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain and very strong winds. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Grass | - | Many large oak and pine trees were uprooted or snapped off. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Blue Grass | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Blue Grass | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4930318 | The 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 640286. 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.