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Carmel, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Spruce Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56727. The Survey maps it on the Carmel quadrangle.

Carmel within Beltrami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Carmel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,547 acres in total. None started naturally. 76 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/incendiarism76
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 1992Debris and open burning13 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2003Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2004Arson/incendiarism35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2007Arson/incendiarism15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmel in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Carmel-A swath of tree damage was found with satellite though no known other damage has been found or reported. Max wind estimated at 100 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCarmel-A few trees were snapped or uprooted in a shelterbelt.
July 2014HailCarmel-The hail started out small and ended up big.
April 2010HailCarmel-Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground.
September 2017HailCarmel-no account filed
July 2009HailCarmel-no account filed
July 2008HailCarmel-no account filed
September 2006HailCarmel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Jelle3.8 miles7
Four Town5.8 miles7
Malcolm6.5 miles7
Thorhult11.0 miles6
Gates Corner13.5 miles7
Ponemah33.4 miles8
Little Rock33.6 miles9
Red Lake36.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654629. 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.