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Crown, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Stanford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55070. The Survey maps it on the Crown quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Crown within Isanti County

On record in Crown

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Crown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning87
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crown in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCrown-Hundreds of trees were broken or uprooted from a downburst that spread out to be three or four miles wide. Some trees fell on houses, sheds, and vehicles. A neighborhood on the east side of Lake Francis was especially hard hit. The winds also blew portions of roofs off of several farm buildings.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindCrown-Several large trees were blown down across southwestern Isanti County.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCrown-Several large tree branches were blown down at the intersection of Highway 47, and County Road 53.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCrown-Several large tree branches were blown down east of Crown.
October 2004Funnel CloudCrown-A funnel cloud was spotted by the public just north of the Anoka County line along Highway 28 west of Highway 47.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCrown-Several trees down along Blue Lake, including one on a power line.

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Oxlip5.4 miles12
Spencer Brook5.4 miles12
Bradford7.2 miles12
West Lake Francis Shores7.8 miles12
East Lake Francis Shores8.3 miles12
West Point8.7 miles12
Wyanett9.8 miles12
Pine Brook10.5 miles12

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 CrownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5189289The 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 642513. 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.