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Englund, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Nelson Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56758. The Survey maps it on the Florian quadrangle.

Englund within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Englund between 1993 and 2020, burning about 10,901 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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
Arson/incendiarism41
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2012Arson/incendiarism88 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,440 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY 27 FIRE
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2011Arson/incendiarism160 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Arson/incendiarism25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 Englund: 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
Karlstad Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Englund in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2012: 2 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEnglund-Dozens of trees were knocked down in shelterbelts across western and central Nelson Park Township.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEnglund-The wind gust was measured by the Stephen NDAWN.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Florian3.0 miles9
Strandquist9.6 miles10
Foldahl11.3 miles9
Ellerth12.0 miles10
Valley Court13.2 miles11
Stephen13.2 miles11
Argyle14.7 miles11
Radium17.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122552447The 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 654693. 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.