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Celina, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Northwest St. Louis unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55723. The Survey maps it on the Bear River quadrangle. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Celina within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Celina between 1993 and 2019, burning about 50 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 1998Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Celina in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
September 2018HailCelina-The hail covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Meadow Brook5.7 miles9
Bear River6.2 miles8
Greaney7.3 miles8
Linden Grove10.1 miles10
Sturgeon11.9 miles10
Side Lake14.1 miles10
Gheen Corner14.1 miles9
Gheen15.2 miles9

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 CelinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5058059The 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 660973. 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.