Cedar, Minnesota

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.

• 1916 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1919 USGS St. Francis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Cedar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Cedar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,334 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Soderville
• Lake Netta
• Coon Lake Beach
• East Bethel
• Ham Lake
• Oak Grove

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Anoka County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640984. 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.