Gutches Grove, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Reynolds Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56347. The Survey maps it on the Round Prairie quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Round Prairie quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Gutches Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 329 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 31 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 July 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gutches Grove: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gutches Grove in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | A large swath of quarter size hail was observed south of Long Prairie between Highway 27 and 287. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Gutches Grove | - | A storm chaser filmed a funnel cloud that looked like it may have been on the ground, though trees shrouded the view. A subsequent NWS damage survey did indeed find nearly two dozen trees that were downed in a convergent pattern from the storm. No structures were hit. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gutches Grove | - | Several large trees were blown down east of Lake Osakis. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | Many crops were damaged, with corn shredded. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | Several reports of large hail, up to the size of half dollars, were observed from west of Long Prairie, to east of Long Prairie, Minnesota. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gutches Grove | - | Large branches down on east side of Lake Osakis. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Gutches Grove | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Prairie | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Long Prairie | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Little Sauk | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Clotho | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Browerville | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| West Union | 11.9 miles | 8 | |
| Clarissa | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Spaulding | 12.9 miles | 8 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122556911 | 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 644544. 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.




