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Culver, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Culver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55779. The Survey maps it on the Alborn quadrangle.

Culver within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Culver between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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
22 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2013Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Culver: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Bentonite PlantIronProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culver in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCulver-Two trees were reported down north of County Highway 8 along Highway 7.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCulver-Three trees were downed one mile south of County Highway 8 along County Highway 7 with one tree completely blocking the road.
July 2021HailCulver-no account filed
July 2006HailCulver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Burnett2.5 miles7
Coleraine Junction2.9 miles7
Arlberg2.9 miles7
Alborn3.4 miles7
Brookston4.7 miles7
Maney5.2 miles7
Independence5.7 miles10
Prosit5.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661078. 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.