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Farris, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Farden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56633. The Survey maps it on the Andrusia Lake quadrangle.

Farris within Hubbard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Farris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 80 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 burning81
Arson/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony20
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
25 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreChippewa National ForestSWEDE HILL
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChippewa National ForestSO # 2
1 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hubbard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Farris: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Beltrami County Marl Beds No 3Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Grace Lake Pit and Mill No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hubbard County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farris in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFarris-Broke tree branches 4 - 6 inches in diameter, along with an old spruce.
June 2019HailFarris-Golfball to tennis ball sized hail fell.
June 2019HailFarris-The hail fell on the north side of Midge Lake.
June 2019HailFarris-no account filed
May 2008HailFarris-no account filed
June 2002HailFarris-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hubbard 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
Nary6.4 miles9
Guthrie7.1 miles9
Laporte11.6 miles9
Kabekona Corner13.4 miles8
Benedict15.1 miles9
Yola19.2 miles9
Lake George19.6 miles8
Becida20.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 656206. 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.