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Caribou, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Caribou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56735. The Survey maps it on the Caribou quadrangle.

Caribou within Kittson County

On record in Caribou

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Caribou between 1995 and 2018, burning about 19,646 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
10 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2007Arson/incendiarism175 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2003Arson/incendiarism12,680 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesCARIBOU FIRE
1 November 1999Arson/incendiarism640 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 October 2011Debris and open burning35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Kittson County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caribou in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindCaribou$2,000Several poplar trees were blown down near the intersection of CR4 and Highway 25. Road crews cleared debris from the roadways.
July 2025HailCaribou-Spotter estimated hail size. Time estimated by radar.
July 2022HailCaribou-Wind and hail impacted portions of eastern Cannon Township, over a mix of wildlife management area and farmland. Time is estimated based on radar.
June 2020HailCaribou-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2016HailCaribou-Hail covered the ground.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCaribou-Three inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2020HailCaribou-no account filed
June 2016HailCaribou-no account filed
July 2013HailCaribou-no account filed
June 2007HailCaribou-no account filed
June 2007Funnel CloudCaribou-no account filed
June 2007HailCaribou-no account filed
June 2007HailCaribou-no account filed
August 2003HailCaribou-no account filed
July 2001HailCaribou-no account filed
July 2001HailCaribou-no account filed
May 2000HailCaribou-no account filed
July 1997HailCaribou-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittson 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
Lake Bronson20.5 miles10
Lancaster20.7 miles11
Pelan23.6 miles10
Halma23.6 miles10
Orleans26.1 miles11
Enok28.0 miles11
Karlstad28.2 miles10
Hallock30.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654628. 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.