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Forest Center, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Stony River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55731. The Survey maps it on the Isabella Lake quadrangle.

Forest Center within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Forest Center between 1997 and 2006, burning about 9 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony2

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 August 1997Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestSMALL LAKE
7 August 1997Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestPOMPOUS LAKE
5 August 2005Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestTOMAHAWK FIRE
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestPERENT RIVER
25 July 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSuperior National ForestWILSON LAKE FIRE
20 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestTOMAHAWK
19 July 1998Natural6.0 acresSuperior National ForestFALLEN ARCH WFU
18 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSuperior National ForestISABELLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Center in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 4 injuries. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindForest Center2 killed, 2 hurtSevere thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees near the Prairie Portage area of Basswood Lake right on and near the Canadian border. Trees were blown down near the campsite of 9 campers who were affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America. One woman (age 39) and one boy (age 13) were killed when trees fell on their tent. Two other campers were injured with non-life-threatening injuries. The campers were technically in Canada, but added this to the event record for historical purposes since the campers were so close to the US border.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindForest Center1 hurtA camper was injured from a tree falling on the campsite.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindForest Center1 hurtA camper was injured from a tree falling on the campsite.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Center-A photo was received showing a large tree snapped and multiple other trees down around a campsite.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Center-Numerous trees were reported down on Boga Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindForest Center-The wind was measured by a personal weather station on Moose Lake Road.
July 2017Tornado (EF1)Forest Center-Environment Canada conducted a survey of the long-tracked tornado, which began and mostly occurred in Ontario before crossing into Minnesota, and rated the damage on their end as EF-2, and as EF-1 on the short distance in Minnesota before it dissipated. Satellite imagery is available to show the clear path of the tornado. The total path length was about 8.5 miles, only 0.9 miles of which occurred in Minnesota.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindForest Center-There was at least one large tree blown down at the Kawishiwi Lodge on Lake One.
May 2011HailForest Center-Mostly small hail fell on Moose lake, but there was a few minutes of quarter size hail. lightning was nearly constant.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindForest Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Martin Landing3.5 miles12
Wheeler Landing4.9 miles12
Sawbill Landing5.9 miles12
Kelly Landing8.3 miles12
Isabella12.5 miles12
Manitou Junction15.8 miles12
Baptism Crossing18.4 miles12
Prairie Portage19.0 miles9

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 Q122560002The 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 656294. 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.