BlockBurr, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Florida Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56220. The Survey maps it on the Canby quadrangle. It stands 1,325 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Burr between 2000 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Gary Volunteer Fire Department | FAIRCHILD |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burr in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2025 | Flash Flood | Burr | - | Many county and township roadways were washed out and damaged from the round of storms on June 28th. The Emergency Manager reported that areas of Yellow Medicine County that have not historically flooded, happened in the June 28th flooding event. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Burr | - | A tornado in far northwestern Yellow Medicine County was caught on video from three different storm chasers in three different locations. A law enforcement officer also took video of the tornado. This allowed triangulation of the approximate tornado track. It appears to have moved across a field and dissipated. Satellite imagery did not indicate any track and the tornado did not hit any damage indicators. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burr | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burr | - | Several trees were blown down southwest of Canby, Minnesota. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Burr | - | Several reports of dime size hail, with the largest hail stone at 1.25 inches occurred southwest of Canby, Minnesota. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burr | - | A few trees were downed. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Burr | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Burr | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Burr | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Burr | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canby | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Porter | 12.8 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Leo | 16.4 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Creek | 27.1 miles | 9 | |
| Clarkfield | 29.3 miles | 9 | |
| Normania | 30.0 miles | 9 | |
| Hazel Run | 34.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hanley Falls | 39.3 miles | 10 |
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 Burr | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19600627 | 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 640675. 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.