Comfrey, 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.

• 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Comfrey quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Comfrey city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Comfrey City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Comfrey between 2013 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Dotson

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comfrey in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 16 injuries. 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 Brown County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 641419. 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.