Carlisle, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Carlisle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56537. The Survey maps it on the Carlisle quadrangle.

Carlisle within Otter Tail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1913 USGS Fergus Falls quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Carlisle quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Carlisle between 1992 and 2016, burning about 26 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
20 June 1992	Smoking	2.5 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	WILDUNG
31 May 1995	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	SCRIBNERW
29 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	WILDUNG
22 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 October 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carlisle: 2 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Eide Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Steib Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlisle in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Hail	Carlisle	-	Large hail and very heavy rain were reported.
July 2019	Funnel Cloud	Carlisle	-	A wall cloud with a weak and diffuse funnel were reported.
July 2015	Hail	Carlisle	-	Widespread hail and wind damage occurred across central Oscar Township. Area wheat and corn fields were flattened and desiccated.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Carlisle	-	Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlisle	-	Two semi trucks were blown over on Interstate 94 between the Rothsay and Fergus Falls exits.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlisle	-	A semi trailer was blown over along Interstate 94.
July 2001	Hail	Carlisle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elizabeth	3.3 miles	10
French	5.6 miles	10
River Bluff Estates	7.3 miles	11
Fergus Falls	8.4 miles	11
Lakeview Estates	8.9 miles	11
Erhard	9.4 miles	10
Edwards	12.0 miles	12
Roberts (historical)	13.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640898. 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.