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Glory, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wealthwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56431. The Survey maps it on the Glen quadrangle. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Glory within Aitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Glory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,221 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Natural5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glory in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2023Thunderstorm WindGlory-Photos were received showing four pine tree trunks that had been snapped about halfway up. The trees were estimated to be about one foot in diameter.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGlory-Photos were received of several trees that were snapped off.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGlory-A large branch was broken off a tree and a large water trampoline was flipped over.
July 2015HailGlory-no account filed
June 2008HailGlory-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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
Glen4.5 miles10
Wealthwood4.7 miles10
Malmo7.2 miles10
Bennettville7.9 miles10
Rossburg8.2 miles10
Cutler9.3 miles11
Aitkin9.9 miles10
Thor10.3 miles7

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 GloryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18344962The 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 654724. 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.