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Crosby Beach, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Irondale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56444. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle.

Crosby Beach within Crow Wing County

On record in Crosby Beach

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Crosby Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
21 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 142 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 142 workings within 5 miles of Crosby Beach: 122 past producers, 13 prospects, 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. 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
Algoma-Zeno MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1904, 1915
Portage Lake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Range Redi Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Adams MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Algoma MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Algoma MineManganeseProducer1920
Alstead MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alstead-North Hillcrest MineManganesePast Producer1955
Arko MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Arko MineManganesePast Producer1955

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crosby Beach in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2016Tornado (EF2)Crosby Beach-The tornado formed 2 miles south-southwest of Deerwood, MN and traveled southeast across Nokay Lake Road where 2 mobile homes were destroyed. There were three residents of the mobile home- a mother, father and young son. The mother and father received non-life-threatening injuries. The tornado continued to move southeast over Placid Lake. Several mature hardwood trees were snapped approximately 5 feet above ground level on the west side of the lake indicating another area of EF2 damage. Additional EF2 tree damage was observed as the tornado moved onshore along the southeast side of Placid Lake. Extensive tree damage was observed along a stretch of MN-6, at a summer camp, and over portions of a golf course. The tornado weakened beyond the golf course and dissipated before reaching Tame Fish Lake Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCrosby Beach-A tree was blown down on a powerline on Beach Road.
June 2015HailCrosby Beach-Hail fell for 10 minutes.
August 2014HailCrosby Beach-The hail was slightly bigger than a quarter.
June 2022HailCrosby Beach-no account filed
June 2022HailCrosby Beach-no account filed
June 2022HailCrosby Beach-no account filed
May 2014HailCrosby Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Crosby0.8 miles11
Armour Number Two Mine1.4 miles11
Ironton1.5 miles11
Oreland2.2 miles11
Klondyke2.2 miles11
Deerwood2.7 miles11
Cuyuna3.4 miles10
Homecroft (historical)3.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 642479. 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.