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Cutler, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hazelton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56431. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Cutler within Aitkin County

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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Cutler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cutler in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCutler-Two pontoon boats were overturned and a boat lift was mangled. Furniture was blown off a porch. Additionally, a tree was snapped and a large branch was down as well.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCutler-Multiple trees around 20 inches in diameter were snapped and down across a road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCutler-A tree was blown down and blocking Highway 18 near the junction with Highway 169.
July 2020HailCutler-no account filed
September 2016HailCutler-no account filed
July 2012HailCutler-no account filed
August 2012HailCutler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Nichols2.6 miles11
Bennettville3.0 miles10
Wealthwood5.5 miles10
Glory9.3 miles10
Aitkin12.3 miles10
Malmo12.7 miles10
Glen13.5 miles10
Pine Knoll15.1 miles10

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 CutlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033922The 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 1989117. 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.