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Fredenberg, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Fredenberg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55803. The Survey maps it on the Fredenberg quadrangle.

Fredenberg within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Fredenberg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2001Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2003Natural12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2003Debris and open burningunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fredenberg: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Nickel, Copper. 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
Boulder Lake--SouthIron, Titanium, Metal, Nickel, CopperUnknownIlmenite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Pentlandite

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fredenberg in 1 storm report in 1996: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996HailFredenberg-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
Taft6.3 miles10
Bartlett7.8 miles10
Rice Lake7.8 miles15
Four Corners9.0 miles9
Arnold9.3 miles15
Twig Station9.5 miles10
Twig9.5 miles10
Harnell Park11.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122557713The 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 661324. 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.