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Duelm, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in St. George Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56329. The Survey maps it on the Duelm quadrangle.

Duelm within Benton County

On record in Duelm

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

8 surveys from 10 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Duelm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning69
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
11 September 2012Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.7 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Duelm: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Corrigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duelm in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2009Funnel CloudDuelm-A storm chaser reported that the funnel may have touched down, but it was impossible to tell for sure.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDuelm-Tree down across road.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindDuelm-Tree down.
May 2022HailDuelm-no account filed
May 2022HailDuelm-no account filed
May 2012HailDuelm-no account filed
July 2009HailDuelm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Parent5.0 miles11
Foley6.5 miles11
Popple Creek7.8 miles11
Ronneby8.4 miles10
Glendorado8.7 miles10
Oak Park10.6 miles10
Sherwood Manor10.8 miles12
Gilman11.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 642965. 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.