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Greely, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Royalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55006. The Survey maps it on the Rush Lake quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Greely within Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Greely between 1992 and 2020, burning about 441 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 burning51
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine 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 Greely: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Braham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greely in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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 2013HailGreely-The hail was reported at the corner of Highway 7 and County Road 1.

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Rock Creek5.7 miles12
Pine City7.7 miles12
Henriette9.1 miles13
Beroun12.9 miles13
Brook Park14.1 miles12
Mission Creek16.8 miles13
Hinckley19.5 miles8
Evergreen Park19.5 miles8

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 GreelyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14692629The 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 644406. 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.