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Erdahl, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Erdahl Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56531. The Survey maps it on the Erdahl quadrangle.

Erdahl within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Erdahl between 1993 and 2017, burning about 466 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictFEDJE WF
3 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2017Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictREDHEAD SLOUGH WF
8 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictFEDJE
23 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictODENS
20 April 1993Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Debris and open burning288 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erdahl in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 8 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindErdahl-Trees were blown down at a golf course.
July 2020HailErdahl-The hail and heavy rain fell along highway 113.
September 2018HailErdahl-Dime to nickel sized hail fell.
July 2015HailErdahl-Very large hail and damaging winds decimated several sections of corn and beans across southeastern Sanford and southern Erdahl townships.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindErdahl-Numerous large tree branches were broken down in shelterbelts in southern Erdahl Township.
July 2010Funnel CloudErdahl-A funnel was viewed near the Douglas County line.
July 2009HailErdahl-Nickel sized hail fell for ten minutes.
July 2014HailErdahl-no account filed
August 2011HailErdahl-no account filed
July 2010HailErdahl-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudErdahl-no account filed
July 2009HailErdahl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Thorsborg (historical)4.7 miles10
Barrett6.8 miles10
Ashby7.0 miles13
Elbow Lake8.4 miles10
Hoffman11.3 miles10
Wendell15.3 miles10
Hereford (historical)17.2 miles9
Herman21.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 643390. 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.