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Dora Lake, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Kinghurst Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56661. It stands on Bowstring River. The Survey maps it on the Dora Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,325 feet above sea level.

Dora Lake within Itasca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dora Lake between 1998 and 2015, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestDORA LAKE
17 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestWEST WIRT LAKE
18 June 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestEAST WIRT 1
18 June 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestEAST WIRT 2
6 May 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChippewa National ForestELECTRO-HOTSHOTS
5 May 2000Naturalunder an acreChippewa National ForestMU THUNDERBOLT
3 May 1998Debris and open burning25 acresChippewa National ForestLAKE HELEN
15 May 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresChippewa National ForestHINKEN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dora Lake in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 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 WindDora Lake-A few trees were downed at the spotter's location and the power was out.
August 2024HailDora Lake-no account filed
July 2015HailDora Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Wirt4.3 miles10
Oslund5.7 miles12
Pomroy6.0 miles11
Max8.7 miles11
Squaw Lake8.9 miles12
Dunbar11.2 miles12
Spring Lake11.3 miles10
Alvwood12.1 miles11

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 Dora LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692590The 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 656029. 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.