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Dunbar, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Good Hope Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56630. It stands on Dunbar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunbar Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.

Dunbar 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 May 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresChippewa National Forestnot named
23 May 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestDUNBAR LAKE FIRE
18 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestDUNBAR
18 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestDIXON LAKE FIRE
11 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National ForestNORTH SQUAW LAKE
11 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChippewa National Forestnot named
10 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChippewa National ForestGUTHRIE FIRE
10 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreChippewa National ForestCOUNTY 149

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunbar in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDunbar-Two large white pine trees were uprooted.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindDunbar-There were about 8 to 10 fallen trees, with some being uprooted or snapped. Some of the trees were 18 to 20 inches in diameter.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDunbar-A 15 inch diameter elm tree was broken near its base.
July 2015HailDunbar-no account filed
July 2015HailDunbar-no account filed
July 2008HailDunbar-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
Rosy4.3 miles11
Squaw Lake5.0 miles12
Alvwood5.5 miles11
Max8.8 miles11
Bergville9.2 miles11
Oslund10.1 miles12
Dora Lake11.2 miles12
Houpt (historical)13.2 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 DunbarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692601The 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 656064. 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.