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Buyck, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. The Survey maps it on the Buyck quadrangle.

Buyck within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Buyck between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2013Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 1995Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2005Smoking1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buyck in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindBuyck-A few trees were knocked down along Crane Lake Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBuyck-Trees were blown down and power was out for eight hours.
June 2024HailBuyck-no account filed
August 2020HailBuyck-no account filed
July 2018HailBuyck-no account filed
July 2014HailBuyck-no account filed
June 2008HailBuyck-no account filed
July 2008HailBuyck-no account filed
September 1996HailBuyck-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Crane Lake10.2 miles9
Wakemup15.1 miles11
Orr17.0 miles7
Cusson17.0 miles7
Glendale17.4 miles7
Haley17.7 miles11
Gheen18.5 miles9
Gheen Corner19.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660925. 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.