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Crow Wing, Minnesota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crow Wing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56401. The Survey maps it on the Baxter quadrangle.

Crow Wing within Crow Wing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Crow Wing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,846 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 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 burning101
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use28
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota 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 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Crow Wing: 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Crow Wing County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Holtz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganeseProspect
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Barrows MineIronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Barrows MineIronPast Producer
Barrows Reserve H-1IronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Hanna Iron Ore DivnIronProspect
N W I Reserve X-51IronProspect
N.W.I. Reserve X-51IronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crow Wing in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 5 hail, 1 flood. 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 2012FloodCrow Wing$634,000The Mississippi River at Fort Ripley rose to its 10 foot flood stage at 11:00 PM CST June 19th. The Mississippi River crested at 12.42 feet at 8:00 AM CST on June 25th. The river remained at 11.68 feet, above flood stage, through the end of June. As a result of the Mississippi River flooding, many tributaries became backed up and flooded. Parts of Crow Wing State Park were flooded, included the picnic areas, trails and the boat landing. The boat landing was reopened on July 24th. The Black Bear and Miller Lakes neighborhoods was flooded. Numerous roads and bridges were damaged across Crow Wing County.
July 2023HailCrow Wing-no account filed
September 2023HailCrow Wing-no account filed
June 2022HailCrow Wing-no account filed
June 2022HailCrow Wing-no account filed
August 2007HailCrow Wing-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
Barrows2.5 miles18
Lennox3.7 miles13
Baxter4.4 miles18
Saint Mathias4.5 miles13
Brainerd7.3 miles15
Meadow View Manor7.8 miles15
Fort Ripley8.6 miles13
Shephard11.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 642507. 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.