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Ellson, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55735. The Survey maps it on the Arthyde quadrangle. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Ellson within Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Ellson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 1993Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellson in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 4 hail, 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindEllson-A few trees were knocked down along County Road 41 near Willow River.
September 2014HailEllson-There were mostly pea sized hail, but there were also many nickel sized and a few half dollar sized hailstones.
June 2024HailEllson-no account filed
July 2023HailEllson-no account filed
September 2017HailEllson-no account filed

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
Denham4.8 miles7
Rutledge8.5 miles7
Willow River9.0 miles7
Finlayson9.5 miles7
Sturgeon Lake10.9 miles7
Groningen12.4 miles7
Banning13.7 miles7
Sandstone15.0 miles7

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 EllsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692607The 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 654690. 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.