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Gheen, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gheen unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55771. The Survey maps it on the Gheen quadrangle.

Gheen within St. Louis County

On record in Gheen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Gheen between 1993 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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 burning9
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLABOR DAY FIRE
12 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2007Natural2.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2011Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSuperior National ForestHIGHWAY 68

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gheen in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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 2010Thunderstorm WindGheen$1,000A healthy 3-foot diameter tree was blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGheen-An 80 foot spruce tree was uprooted.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGheen-A six inch diameter tree was blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGheen-Several trees were blown down across Jansen Road, just north of Gheen. Power was out for about 12 hours.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGheen-A two-foot diameter pine tree was blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGheen-Numerous trees were blown down.
October 2022HailGheen-no account filed
August 2015HailGheen-no account filed
April 2011HailGheen-no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodGheen-no account filed
July 2003HailGheen-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGheen-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGheen-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
Gheen Corner1.1 miles9
Glendale4.6 miles7
Haley5.2 miles11
Orr6.0 miles7
Linden Grove8.0 miles10
Wakemup9.2 miles11
Cusson9.4 miles7
Cook10.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 661354. 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.