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Duquette, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Kerrick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55756. The Survey maps it on the Kerrick quadrangle. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Duquette within Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Duquette between 1992 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural2
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
23 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine 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 Duquette: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Holtgren Sand PitSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duquette in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 flood, 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindDuquette-A tree was downed onto a power line.
October 2017FloodDuquette-Water covered Oak Leaf Road near County Road 47.

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Kerrick2.7 miles7
Nickerson4.0 miles9
Bruno8.6 miles7
Harlis13.1 miles12
Belden13.1 miles9
Sturgeon Lake14.4 miles7
Willow River15.7 miles7
Kingsdale15.7 miles8

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 DuquetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5316095The 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 642988. 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.