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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bruno quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Kerrick quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
105 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holtgren Sand Pit | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duquette | - | A tree was downed onto a power line. |
| October 2017 | Flood | Duquette | - | Water covered Oak Leaf Road near County Road 47. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerrick | 2.7 miles | 7 | |
| Nickerson | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bruno | 8.6 miles | 7 | |
| Harlis | 13.1 miles | 12 | |
| Belden | 13.1 miles | 9 | |
| Sturgeon Lake | 14.4 miles | 7 | |
| Willow River | 15.7 miles | 7 | |
| Kingsdale | 15.7 miles | 8 |
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 Duquette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5316095 | The 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.




