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Debs, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Roosevelt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56676. The Survey maps it on the Debs quadrangle.

Debs within Beltrami County

On record in Debs

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

7 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Debs between 1992 and 2016, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
23 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesTEDDY ROAD
4 May 1997Debris and open burning17 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami 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 Debs: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Beltrami County Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Debs in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 hail, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2013FloodDebs$5,000no account filed
April 2013FloodDebs$5,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDebs-Received a report of large tree branches blown down. Power outage was reported near Clearwater Lake. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2018HailDebs-Dime to half dollar sized hail covered the road between Clearwater Lake and Debs.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDebs-Several three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down near Sandy Lake.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Debs-A tornado briefly touched down on Clearwater Lake. Several trees were blown down or snapped off. Minor damage occurred to boats, docks, and a fish house. A pontoon was seen lifted 100 feet in the air and dropped upside down.
August 2004HailDebs-The hail fell in the Haggerty and Pickeral Lakes area.
July 2018HailDebs-no account filed
July 2016HailDebs-no account filed
July 2012HailDebs-no account filed
June 2007HailDebs-no account filed
August 2007HailDebs-no account filed
July 2000HailDebs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Aure4.0 miles11
Island Lake7.1 miles9
Pinewood9.3 miles11
Little Rock9.5 miles9
Red Lake11.6 miles8
Puposky12.3 miles9
Werner13.5 miles10
Solway14.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 642693. 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.