BlockGroningen, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Dell Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55072. The Survey maps it on the Finlayson quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Finlayson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
237 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Groningen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 504 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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 burning | 79 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 58 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groningen in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Groningen | - | Several 18 to 20 inch in diameter aspen trees down. About half of them had roots showing and the other half were broken some place half way or lower on the trunk. There were a few trees that had about the top third or higher of the trunk broken off. All of the damage limbs or trunks were on the north side of the tree base. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Groningen | - | A 15 inch diameter tree was snapped about halfway up. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Groningen | - | Part of a metal roof was peeled off a house by the strong winds with additional damage to a barn near the intersection of Groningen Road and Fox Road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Groningen | - | A tree was blown down and blocking a driveway. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Groningen | - | Several Aspen trees, 6 to 12 in diameter, and one balsam tree, 12 in diameter, were uprooted. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Groningen | - | There was dime sized hail. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Groningen | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Groningen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1816384 | The 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 644490. 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.