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Grandy, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cambridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55029. The Survey maps it on the Braham quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Grandy within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Grandy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandy in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 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
August 2022HailGrandy-no account filed
August 2008HailGrandy-no account filed
June 2007HailGrandy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Stanchfield Corner2.6 miles11
Stanchfield2.7 miles11
Cambridge4.6 miles11
Elm Park5.0 miles12
Minnesota Boys Town5.5 miles11
Springvale5.9 miles12
Braham6.2 miles11
Stanley6.3 miles11

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 GrandyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5595607The 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 644344. 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.