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Enfield, Minnesota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Silver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55362. The Survey maps it on the Silver Creek quadrangle.

Enfield within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

1,767 words on this township

History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Silver Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Silver Creek Township - 1,767 words.

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Enfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright 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 Enfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Berg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enfield in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Enfield-A weak tornado briefly touched down in an open field and kicked up some dust. The tornado was filmed by the storm chaser.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindEnfield-Few trees down, including one across a county road.
September 2005HailEnfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Hasty2.4 miles15
Silver Creek3.9 miles15
Clearwater Estates6.9 miles11
Clearwater7.6 miles11
Monticello8.1 miles16
Maple Lake9.6 miles10
Annandale12.1 miles10
Buffalo13.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 643374. 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.