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Carmody, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Dalbo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55017. The Survey maps it on the Dalbo quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Carmody within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Carmody between 1992 and 2020, burning about 235 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
Debris and open burning47
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
12 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carmody: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Isanti County Peat BogsPeatPast Producer

Every working recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmody in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
August 2018HailCarmody$50,000A swath of large hail, up to golf ball size, continued into Isanti County from west of Day, to the far northeast corner near Braham. Vehicles were reported damage from the hail stones.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Carmody$50,000An EF-0 tornado continued southeast across northwest Isanti County, before turning directly south along County Road 58 west of Dalbo, and north of Carmody, Minnesota. The tornado ended less than a half mile north of South Stanchfield Lake. The most intense damage occurred along County Road 58 where concentrated tree damage was present, along with a resident garage which was shifted off its foundation. Another resident had small structure damage to shingles or roof damage. Two trailers at this residences slid a short distance, while one of the trailers flipped over. Maximum wind speeds were 70 to 80 mph along with a path length of approximately 5 miles.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCarmody-Scattered downburst wind damage occurred in much of Dalbo Township, northwest of the town of Dalbo. Damage was confined to trees and crops. The most concentrated damage occurred north of County Road 13, near 389th Avenue Northwest, eastward to Xenon Street Northwest.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCarmody-Wind damage across a 7 mile wide swath of Northern Isanti County, from the Mille Lacs County Line to near the Chisago County line two miles East of Stanchfield. Numerous trees and power lines down. One house sustained significant damage in Section 8 of Dalbo Township.

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Dalbo3.9 miles12
Wyanett4.6 miles12
Pine Brook6.3 miles12
Day6.3 miles12
West Point7.8 miles12
Springvale8.8 miles12
Walbo8.9 miles12
Spencer Brook9.1 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CarmodyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5043729The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654630. 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.