BlockDuxbury, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wilma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55072. It stands on Keene Creek. The Survey maps it on the Duxbury quadrangle. It stands 1,063 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 Cloverdale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Duxbury quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
63 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Duxbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 459 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Mille Lacs Tribe | JASON |
| 4 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 June 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duxbury in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duxbury | - | A ten to twenty inch diameter tree was down. The tree was twenty-five to thirty feet high. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Duxbury | - | A road was washed out near Tamarack River Road, west of Markville. Radar estimates of rainfall in this area were about an inch per hour. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duxbury | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Johns Landing Camp | 9.7 miles | 12 | |
| Markville | 9.8 miles | 8 | |
| Cloverton | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Kingsdale | 12.9 miles | 8 | |
| Bruno | 13.3 miles | 7 | |
| Cloverdale | 14.6 miles | 7 | |
| Askov | 15.1 miles | 7 | |
| Kerrick | 15.1 miles | 7 |
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 Duxbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14692604 | 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 643002. 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.