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Freedhem, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Belle Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56345. The Survey maps it on the Freedhem quadrangle.

Freedhem within Morrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Freedhem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,336 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
12 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresCrane Meadows National Wildlife RefugeBAILER
28 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use28 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freedhem in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 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
September 2021HailFreedhem-There was a social media picture of the 2 diameter hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFreedhem-Half of the roof of a barn was ripped off on Jewell Road in Belle Prairie Township, Section 14. A 2x4 from the roof was found lodged in a nearby shed. The time was estimated.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFreedhem-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
September 2021HailFreedhem-no account filed
July 1996HailFreedhem-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Camp Ripley Junction6.4 miles13
Belle Prairie7.0 miles13
Platte7.5 miles12
Pierz7.5 miles10
Lastrup7.8 miles12
Genola8.2 miles10
Harding9.8 miles12
Little Falls9.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 643920. 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.