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Coin, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brunswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55006. The Survey maps it on the Springvale quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Coin within Kanabec 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Coin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
29 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2018Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kanabec County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coin in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 1 heavy rain, 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
September 2019Tornado (EF0)Coin-Two storm chasers documented a tornado that mostly crossed open fields. A NWS storm survey revealed damage to some bean fields as well as about two dozen trees uprooted or broken. No structural damage was noted.
August 2009Heavy RainCoin-Several spotters and observer measured from four to six inches of rainfall in the last 12 hours.

Every storm recorded in Kanabec 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
Lewis Lake4.0 miles11
Brunswick4.1 miles11
Grass Lake7.9 miles13
Ogilvie9.2 miles10
Grasston9.3 miles13
Mora9.8 miles11
Quamba14.3 miles12
Warman22.3 miles7

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 CoinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5141525The 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 654649. 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.