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Brunswick, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brunswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55051. The Survey maps it on the Mora South quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Brunswick within Kanabec County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Brunswick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 393 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 44 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 burning78
Arson/incendiarism44
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Natural3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
29 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2003Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kanabec County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brunswick in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBrunswick1 hurtMobile home blown over. One person injured.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBrunswick$15,000A storm survey indicated that a downburst caused dozens of trees to be blown down in southeastern Kanabec County. A few sheds were destroyed, and the roof of a barn collapsed.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrunswick$5,000A roof was partially removed from a home, south of Mora.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrunswick$2,000Several power lines were blown down near the intersection of County Road 14 and Ivory Street.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBrunswick-A storm chaser reported very strong winds with minor damage to trees near Brunswick.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBrunswick-Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Mahogany Street, and Riverdale Road, southeast of Mora.
August 2023HailBrunswick-no account filed
May 2016HailBrunswick-no account filed
September 2014HailBrunswick-no account filed
June 2013HailBrunswick-no account filed
April 2004HailBrunswick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kanabec 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
Coin4.1 miles12
Lewis Lake5.2 miles11
Grass Lake5.8 miles13
Mora6.2 miles11
Grasston6.7 miles13
Ogilvie8.5 miles10
Quamba10.3 miles12
Warman18.6 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.

Wikipedia article on BrunswickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4979473The 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 640556. 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.