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Day, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Maple Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55006. The Survey maps it on the Dalbo quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Day within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Day between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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
Arson/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
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
31 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti 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 Day: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Isanti County Peat BogsPeatPast Producer

Every working recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Day in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 tornado. 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 2001Tornado (F1)Day$200,000NWS damage survey indicated tornado trekked from 2 miles E of Day to the northeastern corner of Braham, exiting Isanti county at 1835 CST, and then headed into Kanabec county. Two barns were brought down, a dozen outbuildings damaged. Trees toppled, a few sheds were smashed, and siding was ripped off houses in the northwestern side of Braham.
July 2020Tornado (EF1)Day-The tornado made contact just west of Day and traveled just north of a few houses, then hit a farm where multiples trees were uprooted or broken. A partially filled grain bin was also blown off its foundation. The tornado continued across open fields and wooded areas before dissipating. An anemometer on the southern edge of the tornado measured 87 mph.

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
Dalbo3.6 miles12
Elm Park6.0 miles12
Carmody6.3 miles12
Springvale6.6 miles12
Andree8.4 miles11
Pine Brook8.4 miles12
Walbo8.9 miles12
Wyanett9.2 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 DayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5242759The 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 642660. 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.