BlockFossum, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fossum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56584. The Survey maps it on the Flom quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Flom quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Flom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fossum between 1995 and 2016, burning about 793 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 May 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 115 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 640 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fossum in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Fossum | - | The tornado was likely wrapped in downburst winds and rain as it tracked for roughly 4 miles to the northeast and ended around 6.5 east of twin valley by 723 pm CDT. The tornado track was marked by patches of snapped poplar and ash trees. Peak winds were estimated to 90 mph, with a maximum width to 150 yards. Time estimated based on radar. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Fossum | - | The tornado tracked northeast for about 1 mile. Several tree limbs were snapped off in a country cemetery south of Fossum. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Fossum | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q122552336 | The 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 643833. 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.