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Frogner, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Wrenshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55797. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frogner quadrangle.

Frogner within Carlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Frogner between 1992 and 2018, burning about 707 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance39
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2

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
13 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton 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 Frogner: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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
Nemadji River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frogner in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 4 flash flood. 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
June 2018Flash FloodFrogner-Minnesota State Highway 23 was washed out at the Nemadji River Crossing at mile marker 322.
July 2016Flash FloodFrogner-Floodwaters washed out parts of Sheetz Road, and water was flowing into the windows and garage of a residence on the road.
August 2011Flash FloodFrogner-A mudslide containing debris and trees partially blocked Highway 23 near the Nemadji River.
August 2011Flash FloodFrogner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Pleasant Valley4.3 miles8
Wrenshall5.9 miles8
Alford6.7 miles9
Scotts Corner7.2 miles8
Holyoke7.4 miles9
Blackhoof8.4 miles8
Brownell8.7 miles9
Thomson9.0 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 Q122561804The 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 654715. 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.