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Cable, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Haven Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56304. The Survey maps it on the Cable quadrangle.

Cable within Sherburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Cable between 1992 and 2018, burning about 387 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning33
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2003Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cable: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bussee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite City S and G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite City Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hardrives Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sherburne County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cable in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 5 hail, 5 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCable-The St. Cloud airport had a measured wind gust of 64 knots.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCable-A measured wind gust at the St. Cloud airport.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCable-A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that downburst winds caused about two dozen trees to topple in the southeast part of St. Cloud.
June 2007HailCable-Hail occurred one mile east of St. Cloud.
July 2003HailCable-Reported at the St. Cloud airport.
May 2012HailCable-no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCable-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCable-no account filed
September 2007HailCable-no account filed
June 2001HailCable-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherburne 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
Clear Lake6.1 miles16
Briggs Lake7.3 miles10
Becker13.3 miles16
Pine Ridge Court13.4 miles14
Santiago13.6 miles10
Salida17.2 miles16
Orrock18.5 miles14
Big Lake21.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654625. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.