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Four Corners, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Canosia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55811. The Survey maps it on the Adolph quadrangle. It stands 1,460 feet above sea level.

Four Corners within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning77
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Four Corners: 5 producers. 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
Amborn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
La France Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schubitzke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Corners in 9 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 5 hail, 4 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFour Corners-A large tree was reported down falling across an upper balcony porch of a house along Pike Lake.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFour Corners-An 8 inch diameter tree was blown down near the intersection of US Highway 53 and MN Highway 194.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFour Corners-A microburst snapped and uprooted multiple large spruce trees. Some of the trees fell onto a home and damaged the roof. A damage survey found a concentrated area of damage about 50 yards wide by 100 yards long with winds estimated in the 80 to 90 mph range.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFour Corners-There were numerous trees down along Minnesota Highway 194 just west of Highway 53.
April 2026HailFour Corners-no account filed
May 2022HailFour Corners-no account filed
July 2021HailFour Corners-no account filed
September 2021HailFour Corners-no account filed
June 2015HailFour Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Five Corners3.1 miles9
Twig Station3.9 miles10
Hermantown3.9 miles15
Simar4.4 miles9
Munger4.9 miles9
Adolph5.2 miles9
Bartlett5.2 miles10
Twig5.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Four CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5475080The 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 661309. 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.