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Graceton, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in McDougald Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56686. The Survey maps it on the Graceton quadrangle. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Graceton within Lake of the Woods County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Graceton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,761 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
Arson/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning22
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes2
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
3 September 2018Debris and open burning2.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.7 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2018Other causes1.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake of the Woods County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graceton in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2001Flash FloodGraceton$150,000County road 66 was washed out.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Graceton$100,000A brief touchdown was reported.
September 2013HailGraceton-The ground was white with hail. The depth was at least an inch deep.
June 2020HailGraceton-no account filed
July 2001HailGraceton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake of the Woods 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
Pitt5.6 miles8
Williams6.6 miles8
Hackett8.1 miles7
Wheelers Point9.9 miles7
Faunce11.9 miles8
Baudette12.7 miles8
Birch Beach15.4 miles7
Long Point17.6 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 GracetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5591476The 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 644307. 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.